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VARIETY 



MORRIS* STORM OF THEATRES. 

(t is not without the bounds of reason 
to expect that within a short time Will 
iain Morris, the vaudeville agent, acting 
for himself and interests behind him, will 
<'onie into possession of at least ten and 
possibly twelve of the Shubert Brothers' 
theatres. 

The houses arc situated for the most 
part in the South and West, although the 
Shubert theatres in New England, except- 
ing Boston, may be included. So much 
difficulty has been experienced by the Shu- 
berts in securing attractions to fill their 
theatres that such a move has been in con- 
templation by them since the itlea of 
vaudeville to fill their open time was first 
dtak«R iH>.^,,i______ ^^^ _ 

In some of the cities where the ~ Slit 
Iwrts are located there are weeks at a 
time when no legitimate attraction has 
been booked. In others plays are placed 
for two weeks and more to keep the houses 
open, when a week would amply suffice. 

It will require considerable capital to 
finance the venture, and it is understood 
that a company will be orgainzed. includ- 
ing many of the managers now booking 
through the Morris office. The most prom- 
inent will be John J. Ryan, Percy G. Will- 
iams and Oscar Hammerstein. 

MUSIC HALL IN CHICAGO. 

Chicago, Oct. 5. 

'I lie fact* relating to the construction of 

i\ new theatre h(Me with .Tos. Howard as 

Miaimger have been withheld until to-day, 
when the details were given out exclusive- 
ly to Variety. Mr. Howard states that on 
February 12, 1907. the Chicago National 
Bank Company will break ground on 
Michigan avenue, adjoining the Auditorium 
.\nnex. for a new modern theatre to be 
known as the Barrison Music Hall, at a 
cost of $100,000. The property carries 
with it a lease for ninety-nine years. 

The Rounald Wine Company is the 
financial backbone of the venture. The 
theatre is scheduled to open October 5, 
1907. 

It will be conducted on the lines of Kos- 
ter Sl Bial's old hall and a musical comedy 
lastinsr one hour with four vaudeville acts 
will make up the entertainment. Smok- 
ing and drinking will be allowed in the 
auditorium and a rathskeller in the base- 
ment is contemplated. 



ALL AFTER PHILADELPHIA. 

It would appear that every vaudeville 
manager outside those booking through the 
Keith Office has placed a bid with Klaw 
& Erlanger for the Chestnut Street The- 
atre in Philadelphia. B. F. Keith has one 
on file for the house. Of those up to date 
John J. Ryan, of Cincinnati, seems the 
most favored, he having placed a bid that 
may prove acceptable. 

For various reasons not apparent upon 
the surface Mr. Ryan will be in a position 
to do more with the theatre than a vaude- 
ville manager only. 



HYMAN'S OLD HOUSE BURNS. 
Johannesburg, Sept. 2. 
A fire which started from some un- 
known cause a few nights ago burned the 
old Empire Theatre here to the ground. 
Hyman's Now Empire was erected re- 
cently to supplant the former home of 
vaudeville in this city. 



WESTERN EXPECTS HYDE & BBH- 

;:; MAN..'..:..-' 

Notwithstanding denials by the Elastern 
Wheel officials, the impression persists 
that Hyde & Behman will ultimately 
swing over to the Western Burlesque 
Wlieel Hide. No one could be found in the 
Kmpire Circuit headquarters who was will- 
in;; to go on public record as saying that 
the Ilrooklyn firm was actively consider- 
ing an immediate jump to the opposition, 
but one Western manager, who up until 
this time has been rather inclined to make 
little of the rumors touching the matters 
that have been in circulation for several 
weeks, put it this way: 

*WhIle I have no actual knowledge thaL 
there is a change impending in the busi- 
nes.s interests of Hyde & Behman, I, to- 
gether with many of my business asso- 
ciates, am fully convinced that the Brook- 
lyn firm will sooner or later be affiliated 

with us. It would surprise me not at all 
to see this happen within a very short 
time. That is the general impression pre- 
vailing in our organization. 

"It is entirely due to this feeling, un- 
supported though it may be by any actual 
promise or indication on the part of the 
Brooklyn managers, that the project of 
building a Western Wheel theatre in Will 
iamsburg has hung fire so long. The East- 
erners have a strong house there and our 
logical course would be, of course, to put 
in opposition. The explanation of why we 
have not done so is that we believe Hyde 
& Behman's Gavetv in that section will 
soon be given over to Western \Vheel 
shows and that any plan of ours to build 
up an opposition would, under the circum- 
stances, be a waste of valuable ammuni- 
tion.** . 

"Here i*; another phase of the situation,*' 
said another Western man: "Last May 
when propositions looking to the amalga- 
mation of the two wheels were flying 
hither and thither, the negotiations had 
advanced to such a point that the general 
understanding was that both wheels would 
merge. In these negotiations Henry Hyde 
was the prime niover and represented the 
faction in the Eastern Wheel that wanted 
to merge. When everything was practi- 
cally settled the opposite faction in the 
Eastern— the faction that was standing 
out against the amalgamation — won Hyde 
over to their way of thinking by handing 
him pretty much all the power there was 
in the Eastern Circuit. Hyde, so the 
story goes, has since found out that this 
power is merely nominal and in the essen- 
tials represents nothing. Hence his re- 
ported dissatisfaction." 

Bennett Wilson, general manager of the 
Hyde & Behman enterprises, when asked 
regarding the report, said: "This is the 
first I have heard about it. As far as I 
know, there i« absolutely no truth in the 
story." 

The rumor may have gained currency 
in much the same manner that a report 
of Weber & Rush leaving the Eastern 
Wheel made its appearance. L. Lawrence 
Weber was approached by a prominent 
legitimate manager and asked if he would 
entertain any proposition looking toward 
linking his firm with the Western Wheel. 
A guarantee of any demands was ofTered. 
The query was delicately put to Mr. 
Weber, who refused even to answer it. 



HOPKINS READY TO QUIT, r^ 

; "• Variety's Chicago Ullice, 

; ; ; 79 S. Clark St., 
■,■:'*;;■ •;/■•>>•" ^■.: Oct. 6. 

The vaudeville houses conducted by the 
Hopkins Amusement Company in Mem 
phis, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky., are on 
the market. Col. John D. Hopkins, who 
controls the company, wishes to leave 
vaudeville and devote all time to his sum- 
mer park enterprises. He has two large 
summer amusement resorts in St. LouLs 
iuul Louisville. 

J. J. Shubert, of the Shubert Brothers, 
was in Chicago this week talking the 
matter over with Col. Hopkins. The Shu- 
berts want to negotiate for the theatres. 

The Orpheum Circuit also is desirous of 
securing the Hopkins theatres. It would 
be of aid to its present circuit, making a 
break to the Orpheum Theatre in Ne\v~ 
Orleans. The Inter State Amusement Com- 
pany, which books through the Western 
Vaudeville Association, the combination 
which includes also the Hopkins houses 
and the Orpheum circuit, object to the 
Orpheum circuit taking the Hopkins 
houses. The Inter State has a Southern 
circuit of its own and would like to add 
these two cities to its string. It threatens 
if the Orpheum takes over Memphis to 
build an opposition vaudeville house 
there. Nothing further can be learned of 
what disposition Col. Hopkins will make 
of his theatres. 



LAMKIN HAS COLD FEET. 

Toledo, O., Oct. 5. 

With the opening of the Valentine The- 
atre here, playing Keith vaudeville, H. H. 
r>amkin, manager of the Arcade, the sole 
Toledo vaudeville house up to the debut 
of the Valentine, has contructcil a case of 
'cold feet" and will play the Shubert at 
tractions only in the Arcade hereafter, giv- 
ing up the vaudeville end. Mr. Lamkin's 
bookings with the Shuberts forbade a con- 
tinuous policy of variety, the legitimate 
attractions breaking up the week. 

I^mkin will continue to give vaudeville 
at his Bay City and Saginaw, Mich., the- 
atres. It is problematical whether he will 
continue booking through Morris. It is 
not thought here that Lamkin is positive 
himself as to his future intentions. 

Inside information says when Lamkin 
wired to New York of his decision to give 
up the Arcade for vaudeville he imme- 
diately received a reply from managers 
booking through the New York office of 
Morris that they would take the lease. 
The prohibitive price which Lamkin there- 
upon placed on it was the barrier to the 
deal going through. 



MORRIS IN ST. PAUL. 

Chicago, Oct. 5. 

The old Orpheum Theatre in St. Paul 
has been secured by the Morris people. 
The name will be changed to the Majestic. 
It is being remodelled and vaudeville of a 
high grade only will be presented in it. 

Arthur Fabish, William Morris* Chicago 
representative, left last night for St. Paul 
to take charge of the house. 



THAT MONTAUK DEAL. 

Kuutors were flying around this week 
relative to the New Montauk Theatre in 
Hr(K)klyn. Variety printed last week that 
B. F. Keith was after it as opposition 
to Williams' Orpheum in that borough. 

The Montauk Theatre Company controls 
the New Montauk. Ex-Senator W. H. 
Reynolds is president. A meeting of the 
company was held on Wednesday, when 
the matter was gone into. Keith had of- 
fered about $600,000 for the theatre, but 
the asking price was $600,000. The Ma- 
jestic Theatre in the same section of the 
town which Keith had previously nego- 
tiated for was at a figure of $500,000. 

Mr. Keith has declared that he will have 
aHheatre in Brooklyn against Percy Wil- 
liams at any price, and it would occasion 
no surprise did he take up the lease of the 
"STew- Montauk. Percy G. Williams, who^ 
is a stockholder in the Montauk Theatre 
Company, is a strong advocate of the sale. 
In speaking of the deal this week Mr. 
Williams remarked that he thought the 
company should accept any figure approxi- 
mating $600,000. 'If the difference be- 
tween what is asked and what Keith of- 
fers is within reason, I will make it up 
myself," said Mr. Williams. 

A solution which presents itself to Keith 
as a possible entrance to Brooklyn without 
a large outlay of money is the change of 
policy in the Hyde & Behman houses in 
the Baby Borough. Were the Grand Opera 
House to have vaudeville, and the shows 
now playing in that theatre shifted to the 
Hyde & Behman Adams street house, now 
playing vaudeville, it would give Keith a 
house within range of the Orpheum. With 
Hyde & Behman booking through the 
Keith Office the situation might satisf '• 
torily be adjusted along with any outside 
interests that may be concerned in the 
deal. 



ALMOST BOUGHT OUT RYAN. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 5. 

It is learned here from what is consid- 
ered reliable authority the terms of the 
deal which was all but completed whereby 
an association of local theatre managers 
was to have bought up John J. Ryan's 
Olympic Theatre, eliminating opposition 
to the Columbia. The local uianagers 
were each to contribute a pro rata share 
toward the purchase price, and the house 
was to have remained dark. James E. 
Fennessy, of the Western Wheel of Bur 
lesque, was the only one who held out 
against the plan. It was through his op- 
position that it fell through. Anderson & 
Ziegler afterward attempted to secure a 
lease of the Olympic, but Ryan raised the 
price and finally refused to consider any 
proposition at all. 



BECK GOES TO FRISCO. 

Martin Beck, general manager of the 
Orpheum circuit, and John J. Murdock, of 
Chicago, arrived in town last Monday. Mr. 
Beck leaves to-morrow (Sunday) night 
for a direct trip to San Francisco. 



MORRIS BEATS KEITH TO COLUMBUS. 

Columbus, O., Oct. 4. 

Unavailing efforts have been put for 
ward by B. F. Keith to open the Empire 
Theatre in the near tntnre as a vaudeville 
house. But there is a serious hitch with 
the building department and it is now un 
likely that the theatre will be opened at 
all this season. 

Whether they "jncceed in o])ening or not. 
William Morris will hn here ahead of 
Keith, as he opens the Shubert house on 
October 22 with a big vaudeville bill. The 
Shubert house will be given over entirely 
to Morris for the remainder of the season. 



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Vol. IV. 



No. 4. 



''The Magic Boot" opens on the Poli 
circuit October 15. 



The Three Zoellers are playing on the 
Sullivan-Considine circuit. 



Mr. and Mrs. Browning are with the 
•"Chinatown Charlie" company. 



'Iaine8 Thornton has been offered time 
in Tondon commencinpf next April. 



Cjntinell and Harris will play their 
f<»rmrr act at Rhea's Buffalo next week. 



Kicca Allen, .sister to Louise Allen Col- 
lior, playn in a now sketch at Yonkers next 
week. 



Henry \>'. Behman, of the Brooklyn 
iiianageriiil firm of Hyde «.^' Behman, has 
Imth ill this week. 



Hallen and Ha^es. a Western team, re- 
placed the nruinmor Quartet at Hyde 
il' Beliman'H Ihrs week. 



Harry Tat«' anivnd from Kngland Tues- 
day. His \n\o%\ acf, "Fishing." Uill bo 
srrn Monday ;if TTafiuitPr'^fpitr'-. 



l>inkina' "Innocent Maids" leave town 
• o. night and will not get back to tho local 
houses until the middle of March. 



Julie Ring bought an automobile this 
week. It will accompany her on the road 
and may be used for making "jumps." 



The Sunday concerts at the Third Ave- 
nue Theatre commence to-morrow night. 
The bills are placed by Myers & Keller. 



The Harlem Opera House, now under 
the Keith -Proctor management, is under- 
going repairs preliminary to the opening. 



The Four Gregorys, hoop rollers, have 
an engagement of six months commenc- 
ing in April next at the Circus Carre, 
Amsterdam. 



In Boston this week the billing for the 
Keith theatre reads "Lily Seville, the orig- 
inal singer of 'Waiting at the Church' in 
' tBfs country." -'"''^'^''''^'^^^ " =i.r;.i=i-cv==;^=^ 



Jas. E. Sullivan in "The Mlsmated 
Pair," a sketch formerly played by Charles 
Grapewin, opened at the Doric Theatre in 
Yonkers this week. ■. 1 



Billy Hart, at present with the "Yankee 
Doodle Girl" show, has a new act in which 
Anna Yale will assist him. It is a bur- 
lesque on ventriloquism. 



Harry Gilfoil has been offered consedu- 
tive time by the United Booking Agency 
at $350 weekly, but refused to consider 
anything under $450. 



One of the features in the olio of the 
new show to be presented shortly at the 
Hippodrome is an act employing the serv- 
ices of thirty Arabs. 



In Great Britain the Moss-Stoll circuit 
is now called "The Golf Tour," owing to 
the time spent by artists at the sport 
while playing Scotland. 



"A Millionaire's Revenge," the melo- 
drama based upon the White-Thaw trag- 
I'dy, played to $6,000 last week at the 
Aniphion Theatre, Brooklyn. 



Toby Claude, the comedienne, in booked 
for the Palace, Jjondon, for an engagr- 
iiient in the spring. Af1«'r that she will 
plav in l>ul»lin, her home city. 



Waller .1. IMimiiier. of (In- Wrslerii lliir- 
lo.squ<' Wlioel, has luKstpoiiod Ins jirojios,')! 
trip to Kun»p«* until af(«'r tiic Imlidays, ac- 
cording to his own announceriietit. 



Robert Cohen and Elsie Flacherr, both 
members of "The Bachelor's Club" bur- 
lesque company, were married in Cincin- 
nati last week, while playing in that 

li>W!l. . 



Cojitrary to report, Oswald StoU, the 
Knglisli manager, did not book any acts 
while here on his brief vi«it. He left "or- 
ilers" for a few he saw and I he "orders" 
nia N he filled. 



'That Quail«'t" appears without recom- 
pense tomorrow (Sunday) at an entei 
tainment given by the Hebrew Orphan 
Asylum in New Vork for the benefit of 
the children. 



Gifford C. Fischer, the foreign agent, 
did not sail for home last Saturday. Mr. 
Fischer has been some time reaching a 
decision when he shall leave. The latest 
bulletin says to-day. 



in New York placed in his charge. Mr. 
Ely's headquarters hereafter will be New 

York aty.',, ::-:''V. ■.:'■'•■;;:■!•:■ 



In response to a cable sent by Percy 
Williams to London, directing that a big 
foreign act be secured, the answer came 
back 'Impossible." Williams replied, 
"Get it. Nothing impossible. 



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Taylor Granville will leave the cast of 
"The Futurity Winner" next Saturday 
night at the Novelty Theatre in Brook- 
lyn. Disagreements between Mr. Gran- 
ville, who has been the star of the piece, 
and its managers have combined to cause 
the separation. 



Reed Albee, son of E. F. Albee, Keith's 
general manager, is acting as assistant 
manager of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, 
where F. F. Proctor, Jr., is the official 
head of the house management. 



A report from Deadwood, S. D., tells 
of the death on September 25 by burning 
of Vera Van Zant, a variety artiste. Her 
wrapper was caught in the flame of an 
alcohol lamp, burning her fatally. 



The woman of Lea La Roses, a wire 
walking team in the olio of the "Baltimore 
Beauties," playing the Imperial, Brooklyn, 
this week, was taken suddenly iU Tues- 
day night, and her partner, who figures 
only incidentally in the act, was forced to 
go on and fake the act through. 



M. S. Bentham has booked a complete 
route over the Keith circuit beginning Oc- 
tober 29 in Hoboken for Harry Ladell, 
formerly of Ladell and Francis, and Rosa 
Crouch, late of Jordan and Crouch. 



Leo Carrillo, Variety's cartoonist, says 
he will swim the English Channel when 
he goes abroad. No one has successfully 
accomplished the feat up to date, but Mr. 
Carrillo is something of a swimmer. 



Ben Wesley, who two seasons ago was 
with Miner's "Americans," died at his 
home in New York in August. Mr. Wes- 
ley after leaving the stage was on the 
confidential staff of William R. Hearst. 



The "Oceanic" from Southampton, which 
arrived Wednesday morning, brought back 
H. H. Feiber, of the Keith Office; Jean 
Bedini, dnquevalli and Ben Kaufman, of 
the Kaufman Troupe, among others of the 
vaudeville profession. 



Although Edgar Allen, of the Myers A 
Keller office, has been billed extensively 
in the West to appear in the vaudeville 
houses in that section, Mr. Allen knows 
not why, remarking that he will remain in 
the agency business. 



Joe Pineus. who has been an attache of 
the rrreman Bernstein office for some 
weeks past, went to Washington on 
Wednesday of this week to act as manager 
of Ihe William Aforris show playing the 
Sliuhert house at the capital, 

y ' 

At the Novelty Theatre in Brooklyn 
this week Frosini was not satisfied with 
the program position, not appearing. The 
Piccolo Midgets also disappointed. Mur- 
phy and Willard and the Four Living- 
stons replaced the missing ones. 



Mort Singer, manager of the T.ASalle 
Theatre, Chicago, and Frank Adams, one 
of the authors of "The Time, the Place 
and the Girl," are in New York organiz- 
ing a number "two" company for that 
piece. The new f»rpnni7ation is to opon 
Docpmbpr 2.'>. 

W, W. Ely. manager of the Sullivan 
Considine house in Scranton, Pa., ha^ 
had the management of the sam*» Hr 
cuit's Family Theatre on ie5th street 



T. Nelson Downs, the coin manipulator, 
has purchased a home in Marshalltown, 
"fffiV^BiTd- -will reside there upon retiring 
from the stage. Mr. Tarlton, formerly of 
Tarlton and Tarlton, is manager of a new 
vaudeville theatre recently opened in the 
same city, having a capacity of 500. V 



Gracie Emmett has decided after a 
week's tryout at Pastor's of "The Coun- 
tess for Revenue Only" that her forte is 
in Irish comedy character parts and will 
return to her former successful sketch, 
"Mrs. Murphy's Second Husband," until 
she is able to secure a fitting successor 
for it. 



The sale of seats for the entire en- 
gagement of David Warfleld at the Ma- 
jestic Theatre in Boston, where he opened 
last Monday night for a run of four 
weeks, has been suspended, the capacity 
for the whole period having been disposed 
of. Several New York City ticket specu- 
lators followed the Wajfield show to the 
Bean Town. - 



The company for the new Thomas Q. 
Seabrooke-Pauline Hall combination 
which will be seen at Keeney's, Brooklyn, 
week after next in a condensed operetta 
is composed of Signor Perugini and "Bil- 
ly" Norton. Perugini is best known as 
the former husband of Lillian Rlissell and 
Miss Norton is still the wife of Joseph 
W. Herbert. 



Mile. .Anne Dancrey, who has a "T>a 
Maxixe" dance which may he seen in 
American vaudeville, was formerly one of 
the Dante Trio, two brothers and a sis- 
ter. The trio had somewhat of a reputa- 
tion on the other side as a fair singing 
and dancing turn of the European style. 
She is said to be a clever dancer, and the 
Brazilian gyrations in the "Maxixe" as 
done by her are expected to attract con- 
siderably more attention than previous ef- 
forts in New York in similar direction. 



While Harry Houdini, "The Handcuff 
King," was touring England with his own 
company he engaged a Dutch actor named 
Theodore Boumeister, who claimed that 
he was the original producer of the char- 
acter change act presented in this coun- 
try under the title of "A Ca.se of Arson** 
hy Henri DeVries. Boumeister alleges tn 
to have played it under the title of "Who 
Was Guiltv'" Mr. Houdini reeomraended 
Roumeister's act to Ameri'^aa managers 
long before DeVries appeared bete, but 
Roumei'*tor did not stieeeed in obtaining 
a hearing. 



VARIETY 



SORRY ABOUT ALCAZAR. 

The Western Burlesque Wheel is ex- 
periencing regrets over the loss of the Al- 
cazar Theatre in Brooklyn, formerly a 
spoke in the Wheel under the management 
of W. T. Keogh. Mr. Keogh and the 
Western people had some differences, aris- 
ing, it was said at the time, over the leas- 
ing of the Murray Hill Theatre in New 
York to the Columbia Amusement Com- 
pany, acting for the Eastern Wheel. 

Left with no Brooklyn house the West- 
em leased the Imperial Theatre from W. 
T. Qrover and its shows have played in 
that house since the opening of the sea- 
son. 

The lease for the Imperial, given by the 
City of New York to Mr. Grover, expires 
on December 1 next, and there is no posi- 
tiveness that a renewal can be secured. 
With no refuge in sight if obliged to 
cate, the Western Wheel is perplexed, so 
much so that it is understood that over- 
tures have been made to Mr. Keogh to 
come back into the fold, bringing his the- 
atre with him and a company if he so 
wills. ■ 



A WEEK LONGER FOR LA SALLE. 

The La Salle Theatre, Chicago, will not 
be turned over to the Western Burlesque 
Wheel next week as was expected. In 
all probability the exchange will not be 
made before this time a month. "The 
Time, the Place and the Girl," which is 
playing the house, has had such a success- 
ful run that the parties interested in it 
and the theatre are unwilling to remove 
it from the boards. * 

There was a probability that the piece 
could be moved over to the Grand Opera 
House at the end of this week, so that the 
La Salle would be available for burlesque. 
Prior bookings at the Grand, however, 
made this impossible and some other ar- 
rangement will have to be made. 

The La Salle is controlled by Messrs. 
Singer (interested in the Western Wheel) 
and Fehr, of Cincinnati, who have com- 
pleted plans for a new Chicago house and 
are in New York giving out the contracts. 
The proposed nature of the new house, 
while not announced, is reported to be a 
music hall. 



TWO WEEKS UNFILLED. 

Chicago; Oct. 5. 
Owing to the failure of the Western 
Burlesque Wheel to secure Smith's Opera 
House in Grand Rapids, Mich., an effort 
is being made by the circuit to fill in 
with a week of night stands in ordpr 
that the Wheel's shows may be kept busy 
preceding their entrance into Chicago. 
This is the second open week on its route, 
the other occurring between Minneapolis 
and Kansas City. 



STAIR WILL BUILD. 

Toronto, Oct. 5. 

Following the announcement that the 
Eastern Burlesque Wheel had a site here 
and would build, F. W. Stair, manager 
of the Western Wheel house in Toronto, 
comes out with a statement that he has 
purchased the property between the Star, 
his present theatre, and the Bell Telp- 
phone Company's building on Temperanop 
street for the erection of a model bur 
lesque theatre. 

Mr. Stair declines to gives the price of 
the plot. "Tt cost enough and too much'' 
is his answer. 



WILL ABOLISH TIPPING. 

London, Sept. 2A. 

The executive committee of the Variety 
Artistes' Federation has paased a resolu- 
tion "That letters be sent to all managers, 
Htating that on and after the first week in 
January, 1907, tipping will be abolished." 
These letters have already been dispatched. 
The financiers behind the scenes have been 
fiercer than wolvee of late, and the "Satur- 
day night hold-up" is an awful thing to 
pass through. . .. 

Resolutions to do away with "tips" were 
passed at seventy Federation meetings in 
various parte of the Kingdom, so some- 
thing had to be done. Of course sympathy 
is felt for the illy paid stage hands, many 
of whom only get a shilling a night ($1.50 
weekly) from the managers who advertise 
their enormous capital in all show papers. 

Artists are expected to make up a de- 
cent wage for them, and hitherto it has 
been a very easy game. The Federation 
will, of course^ do all in its power to back 
up theatrical employees in their fight for 
better salaries. ' ' ' ' 



MRS. LANOTRY "FUSSY." 

There were "doings" at the Fifth Ave- 
nue Theatre Monday afternoon. Before 
quietude was restored it was necessary to 
call in E. P. Albee, the Keith-Proctor gen- 
eral manager. 

The rumpus was occasioned by Mrs. 
I^ngtry, who made it understood at once 
among the attaches that she was a "star." 
No ordinary, go-as-you-please brilliant, 
but a planet with tributaries. 

Mr. Albee soothed the famous actress 
down until she resembled a sane person, 
but before that happened he had to prom- 
ise the Jersey Lily the entire first tier 
of dressing rooms for her own; also plac- 
ing specially selected imported rugs upon 
the fioor. 

To further augment the troubles of the 
management, some dramatic reviewers who 
were present at the Monday matinee be- 
came restless at the long delay before 
the feature of the bill appeared, and ap- 
pealed to J. T. Fynes, the press representa- 
tive, fur a plausible reason. To appease 
the critics, and particularly Alan Dale, 
three acts were shifted for Mrs. Langtry's 
speedy entrance. It was then too late for 
the reviews to appear in the Tuesday 
morning editions. 



BURLESQUE ADDITIONS. 

Jack Marshall will join Whallen & Mar- 
IpI's "Merrymakers" in Louisville next 
week. Other additions to burlesque com- 
panies <»n the road noted in the Western 
f^urlesque Wheel's New York headquarters 
are Bessie Philips, Madge Darrell and Al- 
sace and Lorraine, who join the Fay Fos- 
ter company in Washington. The last 
named, a musical team, take the place of 
Stanley and Soanlon, who closed last 
week. 

PRINCE WANTS TO STAY. 

.Arthur Prince is using the cables freely 
these days in an endeavor to postpone the 
lime booked for his wife, Ida Renee, in 
Kurope. If he is successful a special or- 
jjanization will be put together featuring 
Prince and his wife under the direction of 
William Morris. Immediately Morris jre- 
eeives^an acceptance from Prince he will 
place an order for lithographs and other 
special paper for the use of the new travel- 
ling company. 



RYAN-CONSmiNE TALK. 

Chicago, Oct. ff. 

Reports continue to spread over the 
coming parting of the ways betwe<m John 
J. Ryan and the Sullivan-Considine cir- 
cuit with its affiliated International 
llieatre Ompany, in which Mr. Ryan is 
directly interested. : .. 

The difference of opinion held by 
Messrs. Ryan and C?onsidine over the pol- 
icy to be pursued in the vaudeville 
houses controlled by their companies is 
the cause of the coming split. 

Senator Timothy D. Sullivan, of New 
York City, Considine's partner, also en- 
ters into the argument. "The Big Fel- 
low" believes that all houses east of Chi- 
cago should play only first-class shows, 
holding with Ryan that the most money 
lies in that. Mr. Considine, with a long 
experience in the Far West only as a 
g^ide, is a great believer in the "ten- 
cent" variety of vaudeville. 

Both Ryan and Considine will meet 
here and definite action will likely be 
taken, Ryan having offered to either buy 
or sell out his own or partner's interests 
in the cheap circuits. , ♦ 



THE MORRIS-SHUBERT TIME. 

Rumors were plentiful during the early 
part of the week that trouble was brewing 
between William Morris and the Shubert 
Brothers. The stories, which seem to have 
been inspired, predicted a split between the 
agent and managers which would lead to 
a dissolving of the agreement under which 
Morris places vaudeville shows in the Shu- 
bert Brothers' theatres whenever open time 
exists. 

The rumors had no further foundation 
than a request for an increased orchestra 
by the manager of the Morris company 
playing at the Belasco Theatre in Wash- 
ington this week. When Mr. Morris was 
asked about the report his surprise bore 
out his statement that there was no truth 
whatsoever in it. 

An unconfirmed report has it that here- 
after the Morris companies will play the 
Shubert time on extremely favorable 
terms; so favorable in fact that loss can 
hardly be sustained by Morris. 



MAY HOWARD LOCATED. 

Chicago, Oct. 5. 

The Orpheum Theatre at Davenport, 
Iowa, which has been entirely rebuilt and 
beautified by Manager Raphael, will open 
next week with a burlesque stock com- 
pany. May Howard will head the organi- 
zation, which includes a number of ca- 
pable people, beside a trained chorus of 
pretty girls. _ 

This will be the first time that burlesque 
of the more pretentious order has been 
given in that city, which has a drawing 
population, inclusive of Moline and Rock 
Island. Til., of 100,000 people. 



CIRCLE'S OPENING SET. 
The Western Wheel people declare that 
the Circle Theatre will be ready for its 
opening October 22. In its present state 
this seems a rash promise. George 
Krans, however, is so much convinced that 
his contractors will turn the complefed 
house over to him at that time that he 
has placeii u\ oven bet of $250 with M. M. 
Thiese that the latter's show "Wine, 
Woman and Song" will be able to open 
on that date, as booke<l. Thicsc hopes 
that he loses the wager. 



THE VAUDEVILLS SITUATION. 

The vaudeville map ia changing rapidly 

and seems now only to have attained speed 

in its revolutions. In the spring wh«n the 

combination between B. F. Keith, F. F. 
Proctor and S. Z. Poll was effected, Va- 
riety printed at length the probable re- 
sult. 

In no instance did Variety err, although 
at that time few believed that the pre- 
dictions made would become facts. Va- 
riety did not foresee the league entered 
into between the Shuberts and William 
Morris, nor did it suspect the acquisition 
of Shubert theatres for vaudeville only. 
In other respects the present status of the 
vaudeville world as it is to-day was out. 
lined. ,<■. - ■■■■■";■• 

The Morris managers have gone forward, 
while the Keith people have remained sta- 
tionary. That is the situation now. Mor- 
ris and the managers booking through his 
oflSce are still going forward. They have 
the country to go into. The Keith office 
can not move. It has buckled onto its 
breastplate all the available hangers in 
sight, until none is left. Another house 
may be had by Keith in Brooklyn or New 
York, and that will be all. 

The worry of Keith is to keep his fences 
intact. Morris is growing too strong for 
the Keith whip to sting with its old ef- 
fect. It's results that count. Mr. Keith's 
general manager may assure and reassure 
the managers the Keith Office books for, 
but "facts are facts, and they are often 
stubborn." Morris is placing yauderiUe in 
all large cities, and hy so doing erecting 
opposition to Keith managers. They need 
acts to offset the imposing bills of the 
other side. Keith can not supply his man- 
agers with feature acts, for he has not 
enough to go around. 

The managers themselves, while in des- 
perate straits, are helpless. Even though 
they book an act, it is not theirs until Mr. 
Albee passes upon the advisability of al- 
lowing it to play the town. Managers of 
the Harry Davis-Mike Shea-J. H. Moore 
stamp have become mere office boys in 
the conduct of their business. Each has 
less to do with the running of his house 
than the head usher he pays. 

Denial upon denial may be made, but 
there is revolt in the Keith Office among 
the managers. No one doubts that S. Z. 
Poli has already wearied of his bargain. It 
is with the greatest trouble that Mr. Poli 
is aware of his own existence. He has 
lately declared himself, and it is common 
report that the New England manager 
would like once more to rest content in 
the William Morris office. 

Shea, Davis, Moore and others, with the 
continued inroads made by Morris into the 
opposition, fall to find that "magnificent 
protection** which was the grease that 
caused their feet to slip. 

William Morris is in a stronger position 
now as regards booking than ever before. 
He can give more and better time. Keith 
has plenty of good time also, but no acts. 
The scarcity of big acts is working havoc 
with both sections. 

There will be many changes in vaude- 
ville before the season passes. The most 
will occur in the Keith Office. The United 
Booking Agency looks very well on paper, 
hut the unity which should exist is grow- 
ing sadly less noticeable each day. 



Kred Kamo, the English vaudeville pro- 
ducer, left for home last Saturday. 



VARIETY 



LEO CARRILLO'S CARTOON OF THE WEEK 




O 6 - ^ 



GUILBERT AND CHEVALIER JEAL- 
OUS. 

Whispers are current that an exceeding- 
ly cold wave is constantly passing between 
Yvette Guilbert and Albert Chevalier. 
Uotli stars arc jealous of the other and 
immediately a newspaper article gives one 
a more extended notice than the partner 

in the forthcoming tour the air is rent 
with demoniacal howls of protest. 

Just before sailing for America Mme. 
(luilbert caused to be inserted in the Lon- 
don dailies an announcement to the effect 
that she was about to sail for these shores 
for a series of performances and that her 
"company" would include Albert Chevalier. 
The English artist promptly countered 
with the following: "Mme. Guilbert and 
myself are engaged by Messrs. Liebler & 
Co. for a six weeks tour in America, each 
to contribute half the program. The 'com- 
pany' consisting solely of Mme. Guilbert 
and myself, will be neither Mme. Guilbert's 
nor mine.*' 



STILL AFTER GOODWIN. 

A letter written to Nat C. Goodwin by 
n vaudeville agent soliciting Mr. Goodwin 
to make an appearance in the continuous 
brought a reply to the effect that if it 
could be shown the light comedian that 
l)etter financial returns would result from 
>*uch an engagement Mr. Goodwin would 
entertain the proposition. 



WILL CLOSE "50." THEATRES. 

/ Chicago, Oct. 5. 

Tln're are over one hundred "five-cent" 
theatres in Chicago and they are a menace 
and disgrace to the city. The novelty has 
worn itself out and the operators of these 
resorts who hold leases on the premises are 
<lriven to all kinds of schemes to keep up. 

'J'lio newest device gotten up to entice 
th<» juvenile patrons is in the shape of sen- 
sational posters. The police some time 
ago placed the ban on these lithographs 
and declared that the pictorial display is 
harmful to the youthful mind. There will 
])robably be a general closing shortly. 



OUT OF VAUDEVILLE. 

Chicago, Oct. 5. 
Joseph E. Howard, actor, author and 
composer, and Mabel Harrison, who shared 
vaudeville honors with him during their 
brief stay in the field, are now in Chicago, 
having given up the varieties to star joint- 
ly in a musical comedy entitled "The Girl 
and the Man," written by Mr. Howard. 
It opens October 20 under the management 
of Walter Lindsey. 



5. 



OLYMPIC'S BIG RECEIPTS. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 
Business at the Ryan new Olympic The- 
atre here continues enormous. Authentic 
information gives last week's receipts as 
$0,253, the record week, although the pre- 
vious ones were not far behind. 



o 



BOSTON'S ORPHEUM DOING BUSI- 
NESS. 

Boston, Oct. 5, 
As far as Boston is concerned the ques- 
tion whether opposition against Keith 
when intelligently directed would be suc- 
cessful has been answered. 

W illiams' Orpheiim Theatre in this city, 
pened on J-abor Day, turned people away 
at the concert last Sunday night. Busi- 
ness during the week has ruled big, in- 
creasing nightly, with large attendance at 
matinees. 'Hie success of the theatre with 
its policy of "the best vaudeville always" 
is no longer in doubt. 

There is some talk that the Keith the- 
atre will inaugurate Sunday night shows, 
for revenue only, within a short while. 



ERIE BUILDING UP. 

Erie, Pa., Oct. 5. 
Business at Ryan's Majestic Theatre 
here improves steadily. It was predicted 
before the house opened that $1,500 
weekly would be considered good. No 
bill played* here as yet cost less than 
$2,000. The report about town is that 
the lowest week's receipts have been 
above that figure. 



Fred Niblo and Josephine Cohan will 
present for the first time a sketch by Niblo 
and Will Cressy in Buffalo on Monday, en- 
titled "A Friend of the Family." A well- 
known three-act play has the same title. 



GROVER WAITING. 

William T. G rover's project for securing 
a vaudeville house in Manhattan seems to 
be in abeyance just now. Someone asked 
the Brooklyn manager this week what the 
present status of his scheme was. He re- 
plied, "Wait. You'll see later. Meanwhile 
I am waiting for things to quiet down and 
the smoke of battle to clear away from 
Manhattan Island." 



DOROTHY RUSSELL'S NEW ACT. 

The "Daughter of Lillian RusseU" wiU 
once again make a vaudeville appearance 
at the Sunday concert to be given at the 
Amphion Theatre in Brooklyn to-morrow 
night. Besides the billing Dorothy will 
liave this time a piano to assist her. "Pi- 
anologue" will be the title of "daughter's" 
new act. 



ALLENTOWN GETS BESSIE WYNNE. 

When Bessie Wynne, the former ''Wis- 
ard of Oz" beauty, opens her vaudeville 
season Allentown, Pa., will be on hand 
to witness it. Miss Wynne has selected 
the Wilmer & Vincent theatre there as 
the place for her debut. 



Martin Beck has contracted to take Ser- 
vais LeR'oy, the magician, as the principal 
feature with his Orpheum Road Show for 
next season. LeRoy has not been seen in 
America for several years. His salary with 
the Orpheum show will tc* J(j600 per week. 



VARISTY 



CAN'T BREAK CONTRACTS. 

A toreign artist who will arrive iu New 
York on October 15 with the intention of 
playing the Keith time, after having been 
booked for thirty-five weeks by William 
Morris before he left New York, will prob- 
ably have an injunction served upon him- 
self if the attempt to evade the Morris 
contracts is made. 

Morris has declared that he will allow of 
no breaking of any contract entered into 
by him, and will take legal steps to pre- 
vent it. The artist in question while on 
the other side became nervous over the re- 
sponsibility of the managers booking 
through Morris and engaged with Keith, 
although it was known by the Keith agent 
that the Morris time had been contracted 
for. 



ALMOST HAD STEVENSON. 

Charles A. Stevenson, who has been 
leading man with Mrs. Leslie Carter ever 
since that actress has been established, 
has been for several weeks making prep- 
arations to make a vaudeville debut. The 
piece selected by him is a drama entitled 
"Just a Man's Fancy," requiring the serv- 
ices of four people. Everything progressed 
smoothly and M. S. Bentham, to whom 
had been intrusted the bookings, was ar- 
ranging for immediate time. On Wednes- 
day, however, Stevenson received an of- 
fer for the legitimate, the nature of 
which he refuses to disclose, and the 
scheme was temporarily abandoned. 



FRED RAT MARRIES. 

V Toronto, Ont., Oct. 6. 

At one fell swoop Fred Ray, woman 
hater extraordinary and Roman travesty 
actor plenipotentiary, who is here, has an- 
nounced his marriage to Lillian Reed, 
daughter of a local lumber merchant, and 
his coming retirement from the stage. 

The wedding took place at the home of 
the bride in Toronto on Monday. The 
couple met on the steamship "Qarpathia" 
while en route for Europe two years ago. 
Ray says he will bow out after one more 
year. 



DE VRIES NOT SATISHED. 

Henri DeVries may not appear in the 
legitimate after all. As announced in 
Variety some time ago, there has been a 
hitch in the acceptance of the play writ- 
ten for him by Lee Arthur. Leander 
Sire, under whose management the thitch 
protean actor is announced to star, has 
under consideration another piece by the 
DeMille Brothers, but neither of the plays 
submitted are entirely satisfactory. 



WINTER QUARTERS DESTROYED. 

The winter quarters of the Cummins' 
Wild West Shows at Geneva, Ohio, near 
Cleveland, were destroyed by fire Tuesday. 
One man was burned to death and a large 
number of animals were incinerated. Wal- 
ter L. Main, the circus man, was the chief 
owner of the show and the loss, estimated 
at about $40,000, will fall for the most 
part upon him. 



BARNUM & BAILEY CLOSING EARLY. 

Owing to the great damage done by 
storms in the South it is probable that the 
Bamum & Bailey show will close its sea- 
son October 25, two weeks earlier than 
was intended. The show has been a 
heavy loser because of weather conditions 
in the South. 



FOREIGN BOOKING ARRANGEMENT. 

. o' ^; ^ — London, Sept. 27.' 

Clitford I'. Kihthei, the New York agent, 
lias entered into an agreement with Som 
era A Warner, the London agents, by 
which a number of the acts controlled 
by the aforesaid firm will be brought 
to this country. They will be booked 
here over the William Morris cireuit and 
the commissions will be divided equally 
between Fischer, Somers & Warner and 
William Morris. 



KEITH FINED $i/)oo. : 

The opening of the Bijou Theatre, the 
Keith establishment in Jersey City, has 
been indefinitely postponed, owing to labor 
troubles. The house was bought last 
Spring and extensive alterations have been 
making ever since. Among the changes 
was the building of a new front to the 
houue. The girders and other iron work 
necessary were ordered in Allegheny, Pa., 
but when they were delivered in Jersey 
City the ever-busy labor delegates discov- 
ered that they had been made by non- 
union hands and refused to touch them. 

At a recent meeting of the iron workers' 
union a fine of $1,000 was imposed on the 
Keith people. Work will be held up until 
this penalty has been satisfied or some 
compromise has been arrived at. The last 
announcement was that the house would 
open October 15, the studio which is pro- 
viding the scenery and drops having been 
notified that delivery must be made by 
that time. 



BROADWAY AFTER CHRIS RICHARDS. 

Efforts are being put forward from 
various directions to secure the services 
of Chris Richards, the English character 
comedian, who is now playing the Wil- 
liams-Hammerstein houses. It is under- 
stood that Oscar Hammerstein has been 
endeavoring to secure him for next sum- 
mer's roof garden season and that Joe 
Weber wants him for his stock company 
when it opens at the music hall about 
the first of the year in the new Smith- 
Herbert opera. 



BURLESQUE MANAGERS TRAVELING. 

L. Lawrence Weber, of Weber & Rush, 
will leave for the West next Tuesday or 
Wednesday to be gone two weeks on a 
business trip. He will be joined in Cin- 
cinnati on the following Sunday by Sam 
Scribner, another manager. 



MAKING PEORIA FIRST CLASS. 

Peoria, 111., Oct. 6. 
It is the intention to convert the Main 
street theatre into a first-class vaudeville 
house playing the larger acts. It is 
booked through the Western Vaudeville 
Association. Louis Simon and Grace 
Gardner are one of the features engaged. 



THE MURPHYS FEATURED. 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy will go 
starring next season in a comedy drama 
called "The Irish Jews." The leading 
character in the piece is called Moses Mc- 
Ginnis. 



DESSAUER MURRAY HILL'S 
MANAGER. 

Sam Dessauer was installed this week 
as manager of the Murray Hill Theatre 
on the Eastern Burlesque Wheel. 



BLANEY WANTS MISS McKINLEY. 

Charles E. Blaney ih negotiating with 

Mabel McKinley tor h starring tour in 

the popular priced housert in a three-act 

play to bf- called either "The Girl from 
Washington" or 'The <iirl from the. White 
House." 

Blaney is looming up us formidable 
opposition to the Stair «& Havlin circuit. 
He is rapidly acquiring houses of his own 
for the presentation of his numerous at- 
tractions. Only recently he made a bid 
for the Murray Hill Theatre. 

It is also reported that Mr. Blaney 
has approached J. Austin Fynes with an 
offer for Mr. Fynes' recent purchase of the 
plot at 125th street and Fifth avenue in 
Harlem. Owing to tlie conversion of the 
Harlem Opera House for vaudeville there 
is no legitimate theatre now left on the 
West Side excepting the West End far 
over, which plays the Stair & Havlin 
attractions. , , 



ATTACHED EDWARDS' SALARY. 

Chicago, Oct. 6. 

No salary has yet been received by Gua 
Edwards from Kohl A Castle for the per- 
formance here last week of Edwards' 
"Newsboys' Quintet." The act played a 
Kohl & Castle house. In accordance with 
the booking agreement made through the 
oHice of William Morris, Edwards should 
have sent his boys to Cincinnati to open 
last Sunday. This being inconvenient it 
w as arranged with John J. Ryan that the 
act might play Cleveland instead. 

This is where the composer-producer 
showed his well-known Italian hand. The 
act did not appear at Cleveland and a Chi- 
cago attorney at the behest of Ryan and 
Morris attached all salary due Edwards by 
the Chicago firm to the extent of $1,000, 
the amount of damages claimed. The 
money is in the custody of the court pend- 
ing the adjudication of the action. 



"CHINK" ACT COMING. 

En route from San Francisco are eleven 
Chinamen, seven men and four boys. All 
are consigned to Louis Wesley, of Reich, 
Plunkett & Wesley, who will place the 
leather-faced heathens in vaudeville. 

A variety of features shown by their 
own countrymen in past years at local 
theatres will be performed in the act, 
with new tricks not yet known. Mr. Wee- 
ley believes he has a novelty, owing to 
the crowd and the strict immigration 
laws. 



THE FAYS OVERLOOK NOTHING. 

On last Tuesday evening while the Fays 
(John T. and Eva) were giving their 
"mindreading" act at the Colonial The- 
atre, for which they receive $1,200 weekly, 
John T. Fay, who passes pads and pen- 
cils among the audience, rushed up and 
down the aisle shouting, "I am short one 
pencil. Who has it?" 



CANADIAN THEATRE OPENINGS. 

London, Ont., Oct. 6. 

The remodelled Bennett Theatre tUvows 
opens its doors on Monday next. It is one 
of the chain of vaudeville theatres in Can- 
ada known as the Bennett Circuit. 

Other houses on the list which will have 
openings in the near future are Ottawa 
by December 1 and Montreal by New 
Year'i. 



SOUTH AFRICA HAS ANOTHER. 

Sydney Hyman, who is now in ^hia 
country looking over the field for attrac 
tions for the Hyman circuit in South 
.4frica, received a letter from his brother 
this week bearing the information that a 
site for a new Hyman theatre had been 
secured in the seaport town of Duval, just 
south of Cape Town, and building opera- 
tions would be commenced immediately. 

Mr. Hyman came over here for a very 
short stay, but was compelled to postpone 
his departure from week to week, owing to 
business engagements. Now he hae de- 
cided to stay until November 1. 



HOUDINI DRAWING MOBS. 

Pittsburg, Oct. 5. 

No attraction in Pittsburg vaudeville in 
recent years has drawn the crowds that 
Harry Houdlni, "The Handcuff King," does 
this week to the Grand Opera House, 
where Mr. Houdini is the feature. 

That people would pay $1 to sit in 
the wings on the stage while Houdini per- 
forms was something unthought of be- 
fore his arrival. That has been a common 
occurence all week, however, and the 
stories which reached here last week of 
the mob clamoring to gain admission to 
Chasers Theatre in Washington, where 
Houdini played, are now easily believable. 



MAY YOKE A STAR. 

Placing a negative on all other plans. 
May Yohe, she of international faraje 
reaching from the United States Army to 
Japan, will be featured in **M'zelle Cham- 
pagne" when that piece, after being re- 
written, is played at the Berkeley Lyceum 
Theatre which has passed under the man- 
agement of George A. Blumenthal. 

Henry Pincus produced "M'zelle Cham- 
pagne" on the Madison Square Garden 
Roof last summer. It is now under the 
management of A. M. DeLisser and will 
ije the opening attraction at Mr. Blumen- 
thal's bandbox. 



FIFTH AVENUE FAMILY GROUP. 

The newspaper men who attended the 
opening of the Fifth Avenue Theatre on 
Monday afternoon were quite astounded 
to find B. F. Keith, Percy Williams and 
William Morris seated in a box amiably 
talking things over. 

In fifteen minutes the section of Broad- 
way between Twenty- sixth and Fortieth 
streets was humming with the report that 
Keith and Williams had come to some 
sort of an understanding and henceforth 
there would be no opposition. 



NEXT WAYBURN ACTS. 

The next of the Ned Wayburn acts, 
"The Phantom Phlylers," will be produce.! 
on November 15. The opening engage- 
ment has been set for the Albaugh The- 
atre in Baltimore, although that is sub- 
ject to change. "Phantom Phlylers" is 
another name for "Aerial Ballet." 

On December 1 the Pickanniny Min- 
strels by the same producer will be shown 
for the first time. 



MORRIS' SECOND BUFFALO WEEK. 

Buffalo, Oct. 5. 
The coming week, which will be the 
second for the Morris vaudeville in this 
city, will have for a headliner The Great 
T.iafayette. This week's show proved ex- 
tremely satisfactory. 



VARIETY 



HARRY TATE HERE. 
Known in America through his owner- 
ship of "Motoring," the laughable satire 
on the sport which played vaudeville 
here, Harry Tate, the E^nglish producer, 

arrived in the city on Thursday last. 
. Mr. Tate is clean cut in build and looks 
and would be more quickly taken for an 
American than an Englishman. His new 
act "Fishing" will be produced at Ham- 
merstein'a V^ictoria Theatre on Monday 
next. Two other acts not before seen in 
this country, "Golfing" and "Gardening," 
will be brought over in the spring. 

Mr. Tate remains on this side until De- 
cember 10, when he returns to London 
for the pantomime season. The company 
here will remain. It is the same that ap- 
peared with Mr. Tate before the King and 
Royal Family in England, at the King's 
request. - •• .''.;•• ■.;' -^'■■'.■- /,: 



ARTISTS' FORUM 



FULL PAY; LITTLE WORK. 

Booked for this week at Sheedy's The- 
atre, Fall River, Mass., the St. Onge 
Brothers were agrwably surprised when 

informed by the Morris office that the en- 
gagement would not have to be fulfilled, 
time having been shifted to Tuesday and 
Wednesday afternoons only at Suffield, 
Conn., with a Sunday night show at the 
(^arnegie Music Hall, where a benefit is to 
be given to-morrow evening for the em- 
ployees of the Metropolitan Street Rail- 
v.ay Company. 

The cause of the joy was the remark 
that a full week's salarv would co with 
the change in time. 



yNITED MAY MOVE. 

So numerous and persistent have been 
the complaints against the blocking of the 
hallways of the St. James Building that 
the United Booking Agency will probably 
move its oflices to the old Gilsey Build- 
ing, over the Viith Avenue Theatre. Their 
press bureau is already located there and 
E. F. Albee is seriously considering the 
feasibility of taking the entire first and 
second floors for the use of the booking 
oflices. If it is decided to move, Martin 
Berk will be asked to conic along with the 
ofllce of the Orphcum Circuit. 



NEW COLORED ACTS. 

Billy Johnson, formerly of the colored 

team of Cole and Johnson, is rehearsing 

a new act carrying eleven colored peo- 
ple. The new off'ering is to be a sort of 
revision and extension of Johnson's last 
vaudeville venture, "Creole Belles." An- 
other colored act will be tried out at the 
West End to-morrow night. It carries 
twelve people and is sponsored by Myers 
& Keller. It lias alreadv been booked for 
tlie Koitli and Voli time beginning Octo- 
ber 10. 



NEVER HEARD OF "K-P.»* 

Last week at the Harlem Opera House, 
while the life of the former management 
was slowly expiring, a young woman 
walked up to the box oflfice saying, "I 
would like two seats for some night next 
week, please. What play will be here?" 
"\o pla\' next week," replied the treas- 
urer. "Keith-Proctor will be here then." 
"Oh," answered the girl, withdrawing her 
money, "never mind the tickets. I never 
heard of that show.'* 



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i vi Pittsburg, Oct. 2. 

Editor Variety: ^.■■■- '■■■:■■'■' '^.'^■w"-.':-:"-y--: ' ;." 

I wish to call your attention to a song 
which is being used by the team of Brown- 
ing and Bentley, who arc now pla^ ing with 
the "Bon Tons." It is a medley composed 
of the national airs. Hoey and Lee are 
using a medley on the same order, but 
only similar because of the fact that they 
also use the national airs. Now Lee 
claims title to the song because they used 
it first. I will acknowledge that fact, but 
when Chas. Hoey says that he is the man 
who composed it he falls off the truth. 
There is only one man who wrote that 
medley, and that is myself. In conclusion 
I wish to state that this song was written 
six years ago, and at that time Chas. Hoey 
and myself were writing parodies together 
as partners. I also wish to state that 
Will Bartel stretches the truth when he 
says that he writes all of Joe Morris' 
songs. I am responsible for at least three 
of the songs Morris is using at the pres- 
ent time in "Lovers and Lunatics." 

Joe Browning, 
Of Browning and Bentley. 



Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 1. 
Editor Variety: 

In reviewing Marquis' Ponies you say 
"the ponies go through the high school 
work smoothly." As a matter of fact, the 
ponies do not do "high school," but what 
is known as "liberty" work. 

High school, or haut icole (wrongly 
called in America "menage act"), is used 
in connection with a saddle horse, while a 
••liberty" horse performs tricks at liberty, 
i. e., with no rider up, obeying signs or 
commands of the trainer. A "talking," 
"counting," "posing" or "drill" horse is 
called "liberty." 

I have found almost a universally 
wrong impression over these terms since 
I have been in this country and think this 
explanation will in a way correct it. 

/. 8. Wolfing, 
^ Wolfing's Arabian Stallions. 

^Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 27. 
Editor Variety: 

I see in your issue of September 22 
a review of the "Lid Lifters" by Rush. 
He says Collins and La Belle do a dancing 
act "head downward, with clogs beating 
taps on the under side of the pedestal." 



Now I would like to state that those peo- 
ple are supposed to be great friends of 
mine, have worked on the same bills with 
us an(f they have the nerve to steal my 
act bodily. I am the originator of up- 
side-down dancing and my apparatus is 
patented. Thejse pirates have even stolen 
that. I can furnish proof that I am the 
originator of this act. Leo Carrillo's car- 
toon on "act stealing" ought to make 
theui ashamed of themselves. They should 
be billed as the "Act Lifters" with the 
•Lid Lifters." Favor me by publishing 
this. 

Contino and Lawrence^ 
The Original Upside-Down Dancers. 



New York, Oct. 3. 
Editor Variety : 

Have noticed in Variety several artists 
billing themselves as "The Girl from Dub- 
lin," which title belongs to me. I wish to 
state that most of these so-called Irish 
girls evidently never saw Dublin, as some 
of them are doing buck dancing to an 
Irish jig tune. I was bom, reared and 
educated in Dublin and made my first pro- 
fessional appearance at the Gaiety Theatre 
on King street in that city under the man- 
agement of Michael Gunn in the panto- 
mime of "Little Red Riding Hood." We 
will play an engagement in my home city 
(Dublin) the coming season. 

Kittic O'Brien 
(Of Daly & O'Brien). 

With Grieves' "Parisian Belles" Co. 



Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 27. 
Editor Varietv: 

In your issue of September 22 Louis 
Epstein claims the title of "The Lemon 
Kid." I honestly believe it belongs to 
him. as I have heard him called by it for 
the past two years. 

Art PhillifM, * 
Witii •'Bachelor Club" Burlesquers. 



Worcester, Oct. 3, 1906. 
Kilitor Variety: 

Talk about copying stufl". Your Mr. 
Hush ought to swell up after reading the 
enclosed review of our show ("Star Show 
(Jirls") in alM>ve town. Just look over 
your issue of September 1st and compare 
the two. You will notice word for word 
the same as Rush's article in Variety. 
This is the Worcester Telegram. What 
do vou think of that? Lew AdaniH. 



McVEIGH AND DALY TOGETHER. _ 

Johnny McVeigh and Nellie Daly have 
been engaged by Jos. Hart for a comedy 
sketch he now has in rehearsal called 
"Smith's Companion." 

It will be played by Mr. McVeigh and 
Miss Daly without other assistance. 



SUING ZIEGLER. 



BERNSTEIN SUES WITT. 

Through I, N. Jacobson, an attorney 
with offices at 13 Park row. New York, 
suit has been instituted by Freeman 
Bernstein against Max S. Witt to re- 
cover .$l.r>00. The failure of Mr. Witt to 
play Mr. IVrnstein's Pleasure Bay theatre 
in New Jersev last suninier. as contracted 
for, is the basis of the claim. 



An aftermath of the ill-fated vetrture of 
•'The K<«ast and Furies" come« in tne suit 
brought i^ainst Henry Ziegler by Mrs. 
Elsa (\>(t<'r to rec(»ver $175 salary of her- 
self and dau;:litcr. which she claims re- 
mains unjiaid. Mrs. Cotter alleges that 
during the time she was with the "PVast 
and Furies" show she received $0 above 
her board and expenses. 



TRIXIE IN AGAIN. 

After an absence not sufliciently long 
to eclipse her memory. Trixie Friganza is 
to return to vaudeville. The route will 
be looked after by Jack Levy, Miss Fri- 
ganza o|H»ns at the Olympic, Cincinnati, 
to-morrow. 



GEO. EVANS ENTERTAINS. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 5. 

George "Honey Boy" Evans, who is fin- 
ishing his fifth week at Keith's Theatre 
after the most successful engagement in 
the history of the house, wined and dined 
a number of his friends here at the Garden 
Hotel on Tuesday night. 

Evans has been treated royally by the 
various newspapers in this city during his 
engagement and several of the most promi- 
nent dramatic and vaudeville critics of the 
Quaker City were among those present. 
During the evening Ev&ns was presented 
with a handsome gold-mounted umbrella 
from his Philadelphia friends and a char- 
acter sketch of himself by Frank J. Duck- 
ett. A cinnamon bun, for which the au- 
thor of "Good Old Summer Time" has a 
keen liking, was built especially for the 
occasion and was the table centrepiece. 

There were vocal selections by Ren 
Shields, who wrote "Waltz Me Around 
Again, Willie," and who came over with 
Will J. Cook from New York to preside; 
Willie and Eugene Howard and Willie 
Weston from Keith's, Charles Dooin of the 
Philadelphia ball club. Will J. Cook and 
others. The newspaper men present were: 
H. Dieck, the Record; Harry Knapp, the 
Inquirer; Harry Hoagland and D. J. Mc- 
Conneloug, the Press; H. T. Craven, 
dramatic editor, R. Parkhurst and George 
M. Young, The Public ledger; J. R. Robin- 
son, the Morning Telegraph. The ball 
players included Charles Dooin, W. J. 
Bransfield and Sherwood Magee of the 
Phillies and John Coombs of the Athletics. 
Among the other guests were: H. T. Jor- 
dan of Keith's, William Manning, Willie 
Weston, W. J. Oarroll. M. D. Swisher, Leo 
I. Donnelly, Hugh Kennedy, Frank J. 
Duckett and Dr. Hampton Brown. 



GERMAN GIRLS GO HOME. 

Unsuccessful at securing other engage- 
ments after leaving the vaudeville or- 
ganization of The Great Lafayette, the 
MacLord sisters, four in number, have re- 
turned to Germany, their home. 

The girls claim that an engagement was 
offered them in the Rentz-Santley bur- 
lesque company, but upon calling at the 
Murray Hill Theatre last week when the 
company played there they were informed 
by the manager that Mr. I^fayette had 
advised by mail that they were unreliable. 
Utterly discouraged at what they consid- 
ered unfair treatment, the young women 
engaged passage. 



NEW YORK MELODY IN CHICAGO. 

Chicago, Oct. 6. 
Albert Von Tilzcr, representing himself, 
and Jules Von Tilzer, with another music 
publishing concern, are contemporaries at 
the Sherman House, where both have sep- 
arate suites and pianos. They manage to 
keep the guests awake with the mixture 
of melodies and vocal strains coming from 
their suites. 



THREATEN TO ENJOIN. 

Ijeffler and Outcault, who claim to have 
the sole rights to the production "Buster 
Brown," threaten to enjoin "The Scottish 
Fusileers" from appeariifg at the New 
>'ork Theatre to-morrow (Sunday) night, 
where thev have been l>ooke<l. Tlie act is 
taken frorn the piece and the managers 
<lispute its right to show without their 
consent. 



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VARIETY 



VARIETY NEWS ERO 




It is rumored that two hundred man- 
agers are now in the Anglo-Continental 
combine and they hold their meetings as 
secretly as if they were ashamed of the 
alliance. The very worst of Continental 
confidence men — who close people on the 
three-day clause, the discretionary clause 
and the obligation to obey the house rules; 
who even send capable people the twenty - 
four hours' notice and close them before 
they open — must now be referred to as 
"brothers" by the English directors. It's a 
strange mix-up, but to speak with brutal 
frankness, some EMglishmen arc easily 
worked by exponents of the double en- 
tendre contract. A good supper and a few 
bottles of wine will do wonders and make 
the honest and guileless Britisher swallow 
all kinds of nonsense, besides voting his 
deceiver a good fellow. 



By C. C. BARTRAM. 
VARIETY'S London Office, 40 Lisle street, 

In two European publications conducted 
in the interests of artists it is never al- 
lowed to puff or praiKC a performance. 
'J'he idea is good and then again it is bad. 
If a man jumps from the stage to the gal- 
lery and then turns a somersault back you 
flare not call it a "a good jump** in either 
of these journals. Even if the cow jumped 
over the moon you could only state the 
frtot plainly — the same as Mother Goose 
iKd. 



In court proceedings the worst of the 
German dirt doers ridicule the sworn affi- 
davits of English and American directors 
and tell the bench their judgment is no 
good. If they want to affiliate with them 
you can take my word for it that they 
want to try and manipulate them. 



The Pavilion is doing roaring business, 
as result of the "roast" given it by W. T. 
Stead, and from which he excepted T>a 
Milo, the living white statue, and Radford 
A Valentine. I-<a Milo and her manager 
Cruickshank have since taken tea with Mr. 
Stead, and as both he and Cruickshank 
are old newspaper men there is little doubt 
how things were worked. 



The history of Carl (Little Pich), now at 
the Empire, is interesting. He is a Buda- 
Peath Hebrew and was getting about $125 
monthly with a theatrical company when 
Little Tich came to the Wintergarten, 
Berlin. "There is something for you," said 
Oscar Dreyer, a Berlin theatrical agent. 
"Watch that every night, and when you 
pet it down I will finance the act." Obedi- 
ent to instructions, Carl was there every 
evening and when proficient Dreyer got 
about $025 monthly for the act, "Little 
rich" jfottinjf nbont $2.W and the rest 
swelling Drover's purse. He broke away 
from his backer and growing bold billed 
himself on one occasion as "Little Tich." 
Bills of this were sent Harry Tich in Ten- 
don and there was such a "kick-up" in 
"Der Artist*' that his name swung back to 
"Little Pich" again. Having reached a 
wage of $875, his highest salary up to that 
time, Pich was fired with sudden ambition 
nnd said he "must go to London." He has 
never done so till this year of grace and 
then had to change his name. So far the 
original *T.ittle Tich" has never noticed 
his advent. 



Marie Tempest Ik making; nn unqualified 
success at the Palace and packing it till 
the walls bulge. There have been four 
statements, each a rise on the other, put 
out about her salary, and you may believe 
them all if you are a good believer. 



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Sidii. The courts arc now taking the opin- 
ions of the German "experts" as to the 
dilference between Dida and Sida. - 



A Yorkshire chorus of 291 selected vo- 
calists has gone to Germany to tour Dus- 
soldorf, Cologne and Frankfurt, and with 
such a large bunch let us hope their con- 
tract is well scratched. 



The Oxford has been extensively "fixed 
up" without stopping the show while al- 
terations were pending. Eight London 
stiburban theatres have turned music 
halls — Sadler's Wells, Britannia, Surrey, 
I>uchess, Metropole, Ealing, Richmond and 
Brixton. Since 1902 no one has had the 
courage to erect a new dramatic house in 
a liOndon suburb. 



The Palace Theatre has dpclared a five 
per cent dividend, and $15,000 ha* been 
placed to a special reserve fund to meet 
any alterations or expenditures suggested 
by the TiOndon County Council. The high- 
est dividend on record here is twenty- five 
per cent, but of late times have been 
rather hard, affecting most London halls. 
The present outlook is excellent. A new 
director is to be elected in the place of the 
late chairman, Count Max Hollender. 



Mile. Genee, who trips "the light fantas- 
tic toe" at the Empire and has perhaps 
the highest reput-ation of any European 
ballet dancer, may go to America in 1908. 
Her great success there would be beyond 
nil question. Socially she has hiph stand- 
ing and off the stage dresses in quiet good 
tnsto. Mme. Katie Lanner is back at 
the Empire, actively supervising the next 
ballet. 



Henri Gros, president of the Proprietors* 
Association, is out with a big kick against 
the municipal employment of singers in 
the parks to do two songs twice daily. 
He calls the attention of ratepayers to the 
"very generous salaries" that have been 
already oflTered, and says London managers 
will be in a peculiar position when barring 
those who can take away their licenses. 
Artists will not object to the new move. 
They say "the more the merrier," and it 
tickles them to be offered "generous sal- 
aries.*' As to barring clau.se troubles, they 
are willing to see the managers have them. 



Tn Berlin "The Creation of a Wonian 
Out of Nothing," that simple trick which 
pulled Hammerstein's purse so hard and 
was given away in burlesque shows, now 
figures in the courts. The alleged inven- 
tor, Herr Rosenfeld, hired a man to show 
it under the name of Dida, but he made 
some improvements and stole it, calling it 



l^'or poor little Dot Stephens, who fell 
out the side door of an English railway 
car and lost both her feet under the 
wheels, the I»ndon Era has raised so far 
about $10,500 and is still enlarging the 
fund with a view to a yearly annuity. 
Miss Stephens is a sweet-tempered, patient 
suflTerer and her case is most deserving. 



It has just come out that Henry Irving*8 
only appearance on the music hall stage 
was at a benefit for his friend M. Georges 
Jacoby, composer of 103 ballets and 
twenty-six years at the Alhambra, whose 
<leath has made such a gap in musical 
circles. ■ 



There is every chance of a new theatre 
being built in Oxford street not far from 
B. F. Keith's Princess's Theatre. The 
Messrs. Warings are the backers in the 
scheme. The hou.se will be devoted to va- 
riety. There will be the barring ijuestion 
to be considered, as it is within the radius 
of the Oxford, Pavilion, Palace and Mid- 
dlesex halls. 



The team of Wood and Bates have split. 
Win. B. Woods will do a single turn. 

The new Hicks Theatre in Shaftesbury 
avenue is nearing completion and will open 
December 10. 



Walter Gibbons has added another 
house to his list trie Brixton Theatre. It 
has been a legit ininto house for years and 
will become a "twice-nightly" variety 
theatre in October. 



Some justified kicks arc being made by 
Americans on the way they are handled 
at twice-nightly shows in the Provinces. 
One comedy act of high salary and in- 
ternational reputation is constantly being 
put on to open and close the show and 
is often cut to five minutes. This is not 
only very poor showmanship, but a bad 
return for the flattering way good English 
acts are treated in America. 



From the artistic stand'point twice- 
iiiglitly is a nuisance, as programs are 
overcrowded so that many names can be 
l)illed and excellent turns cut down to six 
or seven minutes. One artiste on the Stoll 
Tout getting $75 did one trick only out of 
a long fine show, clearing the stage in 
three minuti's. There is little inducement 
to learn new stuff when there is not 
enoufjh time given to do it. 



A rumor that the Empire would revert 
to a dramatic theatre has been started 
and denied. It first opened as a legitimate 
house on December 21, 1887. It is booking 
turns two years ahead at present, but pos- 
sibly has decided to use fewer of them, in- 
troducing in addition to the ballet more 
light musical and operatic sketches. 



SOUTI1 APRiGA ; 

By NEWELL AND NIBLO. 

Empire Theatre, 

:, Johannesburg, Sept. 2. 

We left New York on July 17, arrived 

in liondon in due time and sailed for (^aj»e 

Town on August 4. Arrived there in 

seventeen days, after a very pleasant voy- 
.i,';e. \Aiu\ over in Cape Town until the 

iifcxt morning, which is a new way, as 

formerly all artists left on the day of 

arrival. .•.",■•', 

The Cape (lovernment Railway has re- 
• cntly ad«led another train, which makes 
the jump in fourteen hours less time, with 
a dining car all the way and fairly good 
sleeping accommodations. We had been 
dreading the rail journey, having heard 
of its hardships, but now it is different. 
We reached ".loburg," as all the natives 
call Johannesburg, on time Friday morn- 
ing, and were met at the station by a 
crowd, among whom were our old Ameri- 
can friends Phil and Nettie Peters. 

They have the nice habit of sitting in 

their seats here until the show is over. 

The theatre is new, larj^e and beautifully 

furnished. Dressing rooms ample and 

nicely fitted up; windows opening on to 

a court, which gives plenty of fresh air. 

A nice green room for the artists to 
lounge in. 

Regarding the treatment of the women 

it may be well to go into details, owing 
to past conflicting stories. The Empire 

<»of to day is not the old Empire. Then 
the audiences were practically composed 
of men. Since the building of the new 
house society has taken it up and it is 
not uncommon to see half the lower floor 
filled with ladies and the Wednesday 
matinee, which is the only one given, is 
principally composed of ladies and chil- 
dren. 

If a single girl comes out here and 
chooses to behave herself she will positive- 
ly not have any more trouble in doing 
so than in New York or Tiondon. Of 
course, if she wishes to go out to wine 
suppers and have a good time she will be 
jliven plenty of opportunity. To men who 
contemplate bringing their wives I can 
say with assurance that they have noth- 
ing whatever to fear. The women artists 
will be treated with as much courtesv 
and respect here as at home and possibly 
more, 'lljc position is exactly the same 
as at home. It all depends upon the 
woman. 

Joburg used to be a very expensive city 
to live in and is still for that matter, 
but things are growing cheaper every 
month. One can find all prices to suit 
their purse and individual tastes at about 
<me-third more than in New Y''ork. Drinks 
are expensive, twenty-five cents being the 
regular price for all drinks served across 
the bar, except home-brewed beer, which 
is twelve cents of our money. Clothes arc 
about double London prices; so are shoes. 
May say to those considering the trip that 
it is not only a very pleasant engagement 
but profitable as well, and they will find 
the Messrs. Ilyman most solicitous for 
artists' comfort. 



VARIETY 



ALL OVER THE WORLD 



DESIRABLE FOREIGN ACTS. 

By CHARLES LEONARD FLETCHER.. 

'^ (ilasgow, Scotland. 
' I am on my last werk in Scotland. With 
no matinees I am playing golf, breathing 
big chunks of Scotch ozone, and eschew- 
ing all other forms of dissipation. Am 
neglecting everything for golf. An> turn- 
ing myself into a goat, walking over hill 
and dale ei;:Iiteen miles daily. ,. ,. , , 

Am too f:«r a way from London to get 
good news hot ofT the griddle. Variety 
each week thoroughly chronicles the news 
and it is devoured greedily by the artists 
I come in i'ontact with. It makes us all 
honmsick when we read of the activity 
that is going on in vaudeville at home. 

1 have run across several small acts in 
the provinces who seem to have been over- 
looked by the American agents. They 
would be glad to go to America, even at a 
small figure, and could make good. There 
are three girls, billed as "Dolly, Agnes and 
.Maude," who are genuine Lancashire fac- 
tory girls, with good voices, possessed of 
health and beauty. On the stage they 
make pasteboard boxes, singing while at 
work. The act is a genuine novelty 
and could be booked for $150. But 
I'm not an agent and simply call the 
attention of American managers to their 
worth. Then there is Flo D'Orville, a 
young woman who sings coster songs. A 
snuill turn, but a female Chevalier. One 
liundreil dollars would be cheap for her in 
America and she would jump at it. Ted 
and May Hopkins, brother and sister, both 
native Welsh people, do a novel talking 
and sinking act in "one," so absolutely 
humorous and pathetic they would appeal 
to an American audience from the very 
start. CouM be had for $1(M) and worth 
$250. They made a big hit at the Coli- 
seum last year, but no American agent 
noticcil it. Then there is Frank Hartley, 
who bills himself as the "INx'ket Cinque- 
valli," a wonderful little juvenile juggler. 
I sup|)(»se he gets about thirty dollars 
here. Worth a hundred in America. I 
(ouhl mention a score of good snuill turns 
«»ut here who ought to be snapped up. 

I note thsit .Jack Lorinier is booked for 
the Williiun.s time. IIo will make good. 
He is an unctiious crazy little Scotchman, 
full of talent and magnetism and can not 
fail. Also note that (JcJirge Mozart is 
booked. There is a doubt in mv mind 
about him for America. He is funny, yes, 
very funny, but rather of the sjapstick 
kind. 

Whv don't vou get hold of (ins CJarrick? 
His Inimor is of the extreme ec<'entric 
kind, but you can't help but laugh. Harry 
Ford is ajiother comic singer who ought 
t«) be had. His style and material could 
not fall down. He is high priced here. 

.And Harry Handall. Ah. there is a 
nam*', and wiuit a <'omedian I Hut I doubt 
il he has any oj)en time for America. For 
intelligence and healthy comedy commend 
me to Harrv Handall. Tell vour agents 
to make a bid for him. .T. K. Hnnvillc 
savs he has (((fers for .\merica. I say 
''don't.'' He is funny after twelve at 
night, but not for .Xmerican refined au<li- 
ences. Lillie Souttar is the best in Vesta 
Victoria's class here. If she ever goes to 
America, an instant hit. Get her if you 
can. 
V Cmo after Millie Lindon, an artiste whose 
songs and personality suggests no one I 



;. GERMANY. 

i • By EMIL PERLMANN 

(Editor "Der Artist"). ' 

UutTalo Kill finished September 1) his 
tour through (Jermany, which was crowned 
everywhere with a big success. After 
having paid a visit to several towns in 
Helgium he closed hiti season on Septem- 
ber 21. 

Richard Havemann has returned from 
his American tour. Before starting his 
engagements over here he will take a 
vvell-earne«l rest. 

I^ Comtessc de X., a famous latly 
trainer, intends to put "Red Riding Hood" 
on the stage with real wolves and a beau- 
tiful girl. The entire story will be acted. 
The idea is (piite new and there may be 
a rush to secure this novelty. 



Luigi and .Anita Rossi are back from 
your .side after a Mtay of fifty-five we<«ks. 
They are now a feature at the circus 
Albert Schumann with their musical liorsc 
Emir. 



The Walhalla Theatre in Rerlin, the 
o|)ening of which I described in my latest 
notes, is already in diflficulties. The director 
wrote all artists engaged cancelling their 
engagements. The prospect of business 
does not allow him to engage many high- 
salaried acts. As the director is a well- 
known man among artists I think he will 
moot with no refusal. 



— ^'he new Thalia 1'heatrc in Klberfeld 
will have a stage which will be a model 
in all |)oints. For every act there will 
be a suitable set. Director Martin Stein 
has engaged a great number of first-class 
acts to open December 1. 

ever saw, A gold mine for American man- 
agers, yet T never heard of an offer having 
been made her for America. She is a 
jewel. .Albert Ix» Fre is a comedian and 
graceful dancer who has never been of- 
fered an .American engagement. He has 
brains, originality and talent. Clinch him. 
I^its of talk here about what Ceorge Lash- 
wood would do in America. I'm a bit 
doubtful. For musical comedy, yes. but 
for vaudeville where the matinee girls do 
not freipient I think that Lash wood's 
•'Beau Brunjmel" methods would prove a 
frost. 

I see '*The l^ricklayers," a knockalmut 
farce presented here for years by the Bois- 
sett tn)upe. are mentioned for a possible 
•American engagement. It will never do. 
Nothing but a rough-and-tum})Ie act with 
an unnejossarily big ca.st, Frank Lynne 
has some new songs. I think he would 
fare much better for a return trip to 
.America and I'd like to see him go back. 
1 am sure he would now more than double 
his last season's success. 

I've been over here so lotig that I have 
a thorough knowledge of the values. I 
am working amongst them and I believe I 
am in a better position to judge of an 
act's value here than the average agent. 
I may be wrong in my estimation of some 
turns, but I watch them from the "front" 
as well as "back." and I'd be willing to 
gamble real money on most of their 
chances at home. 



AUSTRALIA. 

By 0. G. SEYMOUR. 

Sydney, Sept. 3. 

"The Squaw Man" did not do as w«'ll as 
was expected here. It ran about six 
weeks in Melbourne. A good production 
and should have done better, but I don't 
think any American company coming over 
here would do well, and I advise anyone 
thinking about bringing a company out 
here to give up that idea and save money. 
Collier did nothing and Kolb and Dill went 
to pieces. Tom Nawn's company went to 
the wall and he had a hard time of it. 
Henry Lee wax a big loser here. I know 
of no show that has done anything out 
here. Even the American acts have had a 
hard time of it trying to please. Occa- 
sionally an act from America does well ; I 
am one of the fortunate ones. 

Dick Knowles just left here on the 
"Sierra" to open in Frisco. He deserves a 
lot of credit. They tried to keep him off 
and did all the damage they could, but 
Knowles is a sticker, fooling them all. 

The Bicknells, dancers, have been here 
for three years, not doing as well as I 
should like to have seen. They have a 
good act and will do well to remain at 
home. Eddie Lang, formerly with the 
Ciothams in America, is over here working 
with his wife. They also have a good 
show. The Bicknells are leaving for Eng- 
land in a few days to try their luck there. 
T>ang and his wife will go to America soon 
rtnd give it a try. Vic Kelly, of Kelly and 
Agnes, is also going to give America a 
trial. They are doing well here. Kelly is 
funny and a good comedian and should 
drop into something good at home. 

The funniest comedian that I have ever 
seen is here in this country, Fred Bluett. 
If he ever goes over he is good to remain 
for life. Some American manager is going 
to grab that fellow if he ever gets a line 
on him. 

Burlesque managers at home are always 
clamoring for good soubrettes. Here's 
where you can get some good cheap ones 
that know how to sing and dance. There 
is no money over here for the Australian 
artist. They have to take what is oflTered, 
and that is very little, as there is no oppo- 
sition to speak of. 

If you play for Rickards you must take 
the first steamer back as soon as your 
engagement is up or lose your fares, and 
if you stay he can prevent you from work- 
ing for anyone else. The others are all 
small places that don't pay any money. 

The "Motor Oirls" opened here Saturday 
and is the biggest kind of a frost. 

Rickards is making a big blunder in 
booking so many English acts, as the ma- 
jority have nothing that is novel, and 
there is not much novelty in England. 

A'asco. "the Mad Musician," and Alex- 
ander and Bertie leave here on the "Sono- 
ma" Friday, the boat that carries this 
mail, and they will open at the Orpheum 
in Frisco. They will play a tour of the 
States. 



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SHEA AFTER BIG FEATURE. 

Buffalo, Oct. 6. 
The advent of William Morris' "All 
Star Vaudeville" into Buffalo is playing 
havoc with 'Mike" Shea's peace of mind. 
Mr. Shea is. the manager of Buffalo's 
recognized vaudeville house and added to 
his bill this week after seeing what the 
billboards had to say about the Morris 

show. ■,^..,. _ .,.. _ ; „..,, . 

Under the impression that the opposi- 
tion next week would be the troupe trav- 
elling with The Great Lafayette, Mr. Shea 
announced Geo. Fuller Golden as the com- 
ing headliner. When the Morris list for 
the second week was made public the 
Bison City manager discovered that La- 
fayette's aggregation was simply a por- 
tion of the whole. The balance caused 
him to wire to New York for a "big" act. 
In the telegram he named "The Futurity 
Winner" as the feature he would like, but 
owing to a previous booking made through 
the Morris oflfice Mr. Shea could not ob- 
tain it. As yet his "strengthener" has 
not been made known. 



SHAPIRO-REMICK SUIT. 

The suit of Maurice Shapiro against 
Jerome II. Remick will shortly come up 
for trial. When Shapiro sold his inter- 
est in the firm of Shapiro, Hemick & Go. 
he received notes for a sum aggregating 
some $.35,000 and an agreement calling 
for a royalty of one eighth of one cent 
per copy on all sheet music sold by Rem- 
ick for a long term to come. 

.After accepting the notes Shapiro made 
.11 flying visit to Detroit, where he dis- 
counted them to Remick, signing a re- 
lease of all claims of "whatsoever na- 
ture, etc." Shapiro's contention now is 
that the release docs not include the roy- 
alty payments of one eighth cent per 
copy. 



The Majestic Theatre at Columbus Cir- 
cle will have Sunday vaudeville concerts 
comnlencing October 14, booked by Myers 
& Keller. 



HELF & HAGER SPREADING. 

Helf & Hnger are negotiating for a 
lease of the entire building in wliich they 
now occupy but one floor. If they are 
unsuccessful in securing it they will look 
around for new quarters in the vicinity 
of Fortv-second street. 




D«ar Editor : Tust to iet you Know 

«9 nlslald the laot Varlet/ you 

<»^nt u» and wo wont to the NerB 

Agency In t.Us town ( UarflJvUtown, 

la.) to got one. They told us that 

thoy hal sold out. i^ciad that not 

maKo /ou mad? ^ ^ ^._, 
Chllde »ind outm. 



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VARIETY 



f NEW ACTS or THE W£EK] 



NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 



InitUl Pretentation or Firtt Appcftrance 
in If ew York City. 



Harry Tate's "Fiihing,** Hammerstein's. 
John T. Kelly, Alhambra. 
William H. Thompson, Colonial. 
The Burtinos, Novelty. 
Holcombe, Curtis and Co. (New Sketch), 
Pastor's. 
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hussey, raster's. 
Carroll and Doyle, Pastor's. 
Annette Duval, Pastor's. 
Hubert Wilkie, Keeney's. ^ 



Waybum't Attractions. 

"Kitty-Town.*» 

Novelty. 

Produced for the first time anywhere 
at the Novelty Theatre this week, "Kitty- 
Town" tells a bewitching little story of a 
ten-year-old miss, who has a collection of 
pet animals, seeking her lost tabby in 
the mythical land of "Kitty-Town." Ac- 
companied by an elephant, a dog, parrot 
and mule, "Little Miss Cute" wanders into 
a stage setting of a small village. Every- 
where is the image of a cat. Even the 
"city hall" has one on its tower. The 
difficulty on Monday night was that Miss 
Cute arrived fifteen minutes before her 
menagerie, excepting the elephant, which 
was obliged to pass from view upon the 
other beasts assembling. Fifteen min- 
utes is a long time in vaudeville. Gertie 
Carlisle, who is best remembered as part 
of the "Sammy and Sarah" sketch of 
Midgeley and Carlisle, valiantly strove to 
entertain her audience for that space of 
time and failed. If Miss Carlisle sang 
as well as she looked the result might 
have been different. When David Abrams 
as the lost "cat," Alfred Latell as a dog 
and William Fables in the guise of a mule 
appeared the fun began to flow. Animal 
impersonations of an artistic nature are 
foreign to vaudeville. For this reason 
alone "Kitty-Town" is a novelty. • Mr. 
Way burn surveyed the proceedings at the 
second performance and doubtless decided 
just where the pruning fork must be in- 
serted. By this time the operation should 
have been successful, and with it the fu- 
ture of the piece assured. Mr. Fables as 
the parrot was immense. As the mule his 
covering was a handicap. Mr. Latell was 
happily cast as the canine, and Mr. 
Abrams has an established reputation for 
sinnilating a feline. The act is a treat 
for women and children. The elimination 
process bringing the action closer together 
will give the same result for the men. 

Sime. 



Mrs. Langtry. 

"Between the Nightfall and the Light." 

Fifth Avenue. 

"Between the Nightfall and the Light" 
is the rather poetic title of the dramatic 
sketch put forward by Mrs. T^ngtry for 
her American vaudeville debut. Were 
Mrs. Langtry as finished an artist as Gra- 
liani Hill, the author of the playlet, is a 
skilled workman, the combination would 
result in the gift of a gem to the vaude- 
ville stage. The sketch runs not more 
than twenty-five minutes, but in that time 
there is told a narrative of not a little 



dramatic power, developed with a well- 
balanced judgment of values to an ab- 
sorbing climax. A swift and unexpected 
denounement rounds the playlet out satis- 
factorily. The text is written with a Kip- 
lingesque economy of language in which 
there is not an atom of the superfluous. 
Mrs. Langtry moved gracefully through 
the playlet, but hardly reached the re- 
quirements of the strongly emotional 
scenes. Arthur Holmes-Gore likewise was 
better in the lighter passages and Hubert 
Carter as the outraged husband did an 
exceedingly good bit of quiet acting. 

, ;■ ■ ■. Rush. 



Hardnin's Electric Ballet. 

Keith's. .' ■ '■'• 

It is not easy to see where there will 
be any extensive demand for an expensive 
act of this sort employing twenty-five 
girls and furnishing but seven minutes of 
entertainment. A single dance or a really 
good dancer working without the ballet 
might be employed to extend the time, 
but the idea hardly seems worth great 
development. The first ballet involves six 
girls with blinking lights disposed about 
their persons. The batteries are packed 
about the corsage and give the dancers a 
grotesque appearance of a "Dutch" com- 
edy makeup. Another batch of six girls 
are similarly dressed. A third section of 
seven are disclosed by the lifting of a 
back drop. The power for the lights 
which decorate this last battalion is pro- 
vided by wires which drag along the stage 
and make it possible for them to move 
only straight forward and back. The 
finale is efi'ective. A rising drop discloses 
six girls posed in the back of the stage, 
while hundreds of electrics are lowered in 
front of them and the whole stage be- 
comes a blaze of light. Rush. 



Merritt and Ireland. 
Songs and Stories. 
Pastor's. 

With new lines of talk and up-to-date 
parodies in addition to some dancing, 
which is the least part, Merritt and Ire- 
land at Pastor's this week are passing 
through in very good fashion. The 
•'straight" man is one of the best that 
has been seen, both in looks, dress and 
work. The comedy end is fairly well 
taken care of, and although the act is a 
trifle slow at the opening it closes well. 

Sime. 



Horace Wright. 
Character Singer. 
Keith's. 

^fr. Wright has two distinctly dialect 
songs and one operatic or semi-operatic 
number delivered in the character of an 
Italian fruit vender. Some little talk is 
inconsequential but helps to make the 
Italian character real. His voice is strong 
and well trained and one of the more 
familiar of the operatic numbers might 
be introduced with profit. Wright 
changes to the character of an Irish work- 
man, where his dialect is not nearlv so 
good as in the other character, but he gets 
away with this, thanks to his voice and 
a good Irish song. There should be room 
for Wright. Ruth, 



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Lydia Dreamt. 
Ventriloquist. 
Twenty-third Street. 

Lydia Dreams is a victim to the unfor- 
tunate circumstance that pathos is at 
times akin to farce and it requires only a 
trifling incongruity to throw the balance 
the wrong way. Dreams doubtless takes 
himself seriously. He takes credit for this, 
but some one should disillusionize him 
without delay. Working with a single 
"dummy" manipulated from off stage by 
plainly visible wires, it represents an old 
soldier seated on a park bench peddling 
wares. Dreams, made up as a woman, 
seats himself beside the figure and holds 
"conversation" bearing upon the "veter- 
an's" present pitiful condition. The 
dummy's arms, head and eyebrows move 
stiffly from time to time and at the end 
the lay figure goes through the agony 
of expiring. Dreams' voice is rather in- 
distinct and his lips and throat muscles 
are seen to move very plainly while talk- 
ing for the "dummy." The act is fur- 
ther injured through the unwholesome ap- 
pearance of an announcer, whose clothes 
are mussy and need brushing. A newsboy 
is introduced during the act, his song be- 
ing the best of the whole proceedings. 
The pathos that should have marked the 
passing of the old soldier was better 
comedy than sentiment. The best that 
Dreams will get out of his tour of this 
count r J' with his present offering will prob- 
ably be an early position in the more 
inconsequential establishments. 

Ruth. 



La Tour Sisters. 
"Sister Act." 
Novelty. 

Supposed to be from the West, the La 
Tour Sisters are appearing for the second 
week in the East. For a "sister act" 
their voices are far above the average 
found in that class. The girls seem to 
he aware of it, and this leads to giving 
loo much attention to the singing. "Lea- 
nora Lee" is rendered with a ballad ef- 
fect, dragging the melody into a wail. 
The alto drowns out the soprano. A 
change should be made in the dressing 
and more careful attention given to the 
costumes now worn. With their good 
looks and youth it will require but little 
attention to details to place the sisters 
in line for good time. f-iimc. 

Banks Breazeale Duo. 

Musical. 

Pastor's. 

Two young women in colonial costume 
under the spotlight play a 'cello and vio- 
lin respectively upon the opening. This 
is followed by piano and violin again and 
the brasses. The soloist on the horns is 
a very good musician and the duet num- 
bers are well rendered. It is a pleasing 
act, and were the girls to have the spot- 
light thrown on them continually it might 
better it. In the glare of the footlights 
they are too brightly madeup. Sime. 



Franklin and Eva Wallace. 
"A Case of Champagne." 
Keith's. 

First produced a short time ago, the Wal- 
laces are playing Keith's this week with 
tlieir latest sketch, "A Case of Hiam- 
pagnc." The talk should be edited and 
requires brightening up in spots. Both 
principals work well, and Mr. Wallace's 



one song was worth while. It would 
seem good policy to give more attention 
to the musical possibilities. Ruth, 



Hagan and Weatcott. 
Songs. ,■'!■■;:"■■''■'.'■•■•;•..." 3 

Pastor's. ■■•■••,/;•.•/■:.';■;..■'•• '''•''^■\': 

Close to the style of Gould and Suratt, 
Hagan and Westcott, who appear at Pas- 
tor's this week for the first time, have a 
fair offering, needing brightening up in 
several spots. Miss Westcott is a pretty 
blond, and with one song addressed to the 
audience is a quick favorite. Mr. Hagan 
has a good voice, but better selections 
could be chosen. "Just My Style" is a 
dead issue around New York. If pos- 
sible more dancing should be inserted 
somewhere. An improvement would be 
Miss Westcott making conipl«»tc change 
instead of removing the cloak only. That 
need not be worn at all. Sime. 



Meeh International Trio. 

Acrobatics. 

Pastor's. ,;, 

This trio, lately formed, depend alto- 
gether upon the showiness of muscular 
strength. The "strong" man of the three 
holds up at arm's length a dumb bell 
clainu'd to weigh 302 pounds. He also 
is the foundation through an attachment 
of a l>;ir from which are su.«<pended two 
sets of rings upon which his partners 
perform. This is spectacular and the act 
throughout is first class of its kind. Fast- 
er working and less of the "Heavy" acro- 
batics would be more satisfactory. The 
act at present is too lon^. Sime. 



Karrera. 

Female Impersonator. 

Pastor's. 



I 



Karrera, when telling the audience in 
the loveliest feminine voice you ever 
heard issuing from what is supposed to 
be a man's throat that he will give an 
imitation of "Stuart, the Male Patti," 
says in a regretful tone of voice, "They 
used to call me the 'Male Melba.'" You 
sympathize with him then for having lost 
his reputation. Karrera forgets that he 
is at all times giving an imitation of 
Stuart, minus the clothes. Stuart, re- 
gardless of what else was said about him, 
always had "clothes." He probably conies 
from the West. To hear Karrera speak 
ig fun enough. You won't mind the rest 

Sime. 

OUT OP TOWN 



Lucy and Lucier. 
"The Fool's Errand." 
Keith's, Philadelphia. 

The theme of "The Fool's Errand" is 
not new. neither is it bursting with what 
might be called intelligent comedy, but as 
a laugh winner it rivals any sketch of its 
sort that has been shown here in a long 
while. At times it is too noisy, too bois- 
terous, and there are several places where 
this could be eliminated without hurting 
the value of the sketch as an amusing 
vehicle. Mrs. Lucier has left the 
Woodward Stock Company of Kansas City 
two years ago to join her husband in the 
present act. They should find plenty of 
work in the Kast. 

Qeorge M. Young {Kinkt). 



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VARIETY 



11 



Burlesque Shows of the Week 



By Rush and Sime 



PARISIAN BELLES. 
If you would like to see a real bur- 
lesque show— one of the kind cverybo<ly 
pays he has, but which seldom material- 
izes — stop into Miner's Eighth Avenue 
Theatre to-day and view John Grieves* 
"Parisian Belles." Both the customary 
first part and burlesque are one piece 

called "A Pair of Peaches," written by 
Willard Ilolcomb and Mr. Grieves. 

It is not thrown together with a mess 
of old junk, but tells a story, well played 
by a capable company, with new and good 
comedy. Sheppard Camp and Al Rice play 
opfiosites in "Dromio" characters. While 
the idea is not startling in its newness, to 
find it legitimately worked out in a bur- 
lesque organization lends a certain dis- 
tinction. Mr. Camp is the leading come- 
dian and during the action falls into a 
monologue in whiteface. He has evidently 
been too busy with the show, being stage 
manager, to give hi« specialty any atten- 
tion. 

Mr. Rice plays the second half of the 
title role in a jovial manner and has a 
"baby" number called the *Tumpkin 
Man" near the close, with the chorus for 
assistants, that brings repeated encores. 
The girls have opportunities which they 
seriously take advantage of. There is a 
little black-haired one, the second from 
the right end, who has the cutest "kid" 
laugh. Fourteen girls compose the 
"merry, merry." Some are quite young 
and some were so some time ago. There 
are a few good looking. In the line-ups 
they are not graded according to size, giv- 
ing an irregular appearance to the row. 

Vocally the chorus is strong and well 
trained. Clianges are not frequent but al- 
ways in good taste. The openings and 
tinales are all musical. 

Alice Simpson, a youthful little thing, 
leaves the row of girls to sing one num- 
ber, but Alice on Monday afternoon neg- 
U'cted to «ew up a ripped braid of her 
under skirt and it looked bad. 

As a good-looking woman and an ex- 
cellent "coon" singer with "talking" eyes 
Mildred Grover leads the female depart- 
ment, although La Belle Carmen de Vil- 
lers is featured. In the olio the long- 
named French girl poses amidst dissolv- 
ing views. Did the tigure she stands be- 
hind belong to her slie might live up to 
the progr.nu billing. It is a well laid out 
act, however, and made a hit. 

Arthur Yule hns a «.r.lo, well sung, and 
does some new imitations. One, that of 
playing on glasses, is a gem. Kittie 
O'Brien sings a lively Irish song and Lulu 
Keegan gives the best impersonation of 
Vesta Victoria's style of singing that has 
been heard, using "London's Beautiful." 

A singing male quartet of principals is 
a big hit, for no apparent reason. Alice 
Warren is playing a deceived wife in a 
creditable manner. Fred Law is the 
"Dutchman" and Bert Somers the 
"straight" man. Law's character being 
kept within bounds. Charles Daly in an 
eccentric "kid" makeup gives a first-class 
performance. 

Four acts are in the olio proper. That 
is not a material part of this perform- 
ance, however, which goes with a snap 
from .a:art to finish. It Is one of the 
first sln,ws to be seen that does not be- 
come tiresome at some time. Sime. 



BALTIMORE BEAUTIES. 

The best that can be said of "Fun on 
Tucker's Farm," the opening piece of the 
"Baltimore Beauticii" at the Imperial The- 
atre this week, is that it furnishes the 
framework upon which to hang half a 
dozen of exceedingly well dressed and ar- 
ranged musical numbers. The text and 
business are not funny and it was good 
judgment to cut them down. The chorus 
numbers are among the prettiest that have 
been seen at this house. What the come- 
dians lose in the opening part they win 

back fourfold in the burlesque, which is 
built out with first-rate business. One 
bit in which Ted Evans and I^eon Errol do 
a splendid piece of pantomime work as 
two dummies, while Tony Kennedy as a 
burlesque ventriloquist manipulates them, 
is screamingly funny. This performance 
was incidental to one of the best numbers 
of the piece, "Not Because Your Hair is 
Curly," by Sadie Huested and a beauti- 
fully costumed chorus. Tlie house insisted 
on half a dozen encores. This was but a 
sample of the comedians* good work 
throughout the second part. The whole 
l)urle»(]ue went to the accompaniment of 
solid laughs, Ted Evans having a quantity 
of ten-strike comedy. Errol also did well 
with a number of comedy falls. 

A well-balanced olio kept the crowd in- 
terested between the pieces. Bissett and 
Miller started off with a clever dancing 
specialty. Both boys do well in clogs and 
dress neatly. They wear black coats fash- 
ioned in a sort of compromise between the 
cutaway and English walking coat, with 
high white waistcoats and neat white ties. 

Tony Kennedy and Ted Evans have a 
new act called "In Wall Street" which gets 
awav from the usual run of olio sketches 
and makes a good laughing number. Evans 
is the clumsy servant and Kennedy the 
gouty old person. The pair get a good 
deal of uproarious comedy out of the situ- 
ation. There is a woman in the act with 
little to do and her name does not appear 
on the program. 

Victoria Siawtelle and Gladys Sears come 
forward with a "sister act.'* The girls 
have agreeable voices and put no end of 
ginger into their work. T-.es T^a Roses did 
not give their wire act. The woman was 
taken ill just before the Tuesday evening 
performance opened and the man worked 
alone. 

tPljil Doyle and Mont Howard do exceed- 
ingly well with a singing and comedy act. 
Howard makes one of the best straight 
men to be seen in an act of this sort in 
burlesque, and his partner is really funny 
with a German dialect and a good parody. 
They make a complete costume change for 
the closing number, "Cheyenne," in which 
Howard's voice was heard to advantage. 
Howard also has one of the big singing 
hits of the burlesque. 

From opening chorus to finale there is 
not a line at which any one could possibly 
take offence, the offering being a demon- 
stration of the sometimes disputed idea 
that burlesque audiences cannot be made 
to laugh except by talk verging upon the 
sugsrestive. A Georgia minstrel number 
and an Irish song were strikingly enough 
costumed to attract particuar attention 
even in the lavish dressing of the whole 
show. Rush, 



TROCADERO BURLESQUERS. 

Another polite farce, "The Misfit Fam- 
ily," has been the vehicle of Charles H. 
Waldron's burlesque organization so long 
that it were fiying in the face of estab- 
lished things to question its value as a 
burlesque offering at the 125th Street 
Music Hall this week. Indeed, the farci- 
cal plot has not a little of laughing pos- 
sibilities of the rougher sort and makes 
good entertainment for the burlesque 
houses. Frank Graham as John Thorn- 
dyke has "grown into" the part by reason 
of being identified so long with it. He 
makes the old man an amusing character 
sketch. J. B. Williams as I..eonard Cooke, 
a gay young chappie, furnishes .a^^Q^_ 
deal of farfetched comedy, and Al Pat- 
terson gets into the acrobatic class fts 
the waiter. > \ ^ 

There are three choruses in the opening 
burlesque. A well-arranged medley is used 
for the opening chorus and another of 
the same sort brings the burlesque to a 
period. The same costumes are worn on 
both occasions. 

The second scene of the three it takes 
to tell the story introduces the third cho- 
rus and a glaring inconsistency. The 
program announces that the setting is 
that of a corridor in the Vendome Hotel. 
For which reason and in the interest of 
the realistic in dramatic art the drop 
shows an Italian landscape with a fine 
marble balcony in the foreground and a 
gorgeous chateau in the middle distance. 

The olio is rather stronger than the 
average. Mae Taylor opens this part with 
a series of ballads. Miss Tavlor has an 
excellent singing voice, good enough to 
make it possible for her to get away with 
her act without the use of lantern slides 
to help out. Her selections were good and 
the house liked her immensely. 

Stirk and Loudan, cycling acrobats, 
were more of acrobats than they were 
cyclists. The ground tumbling was first 
class and some of their team tricks on 
the wheel worth while. They might work 
up the comedy end of their offering with 
profit. For burlesque purposes they are a 
bit lacking in this particular. 

West and Williams, beside having im- 
portant parts in the burlesques, get away 
nicely in the olio with a sidewalk con- 
versation turn in which they keep away 
from the extremes of roughness and 
knockabout. The talk was bright in 
places and they worked with a good ap- 
preciation of the comedy values of their 
text. 

The Grahams do a sketi'h showing not 
a little novelty and attractive incidentals. 
"The Lady Electrician" they call it, using 
part of the sketch they had last year 
and filling out with a couple of songs with 
a pretty scene change. The Wilsons, col- 
ored, singers and dancers, clo.sed the olio 
fairly well. 

The Melrose Troupe of acrobats was the 
extra attraction. The men have some ex- 
ceedingly good work in ground tumbling, 
the somersaults in two-high stands being 
particularly striking. 

The burlesque "Fun at Hotel Astorbilt" 
gave the chorus rather more of an op- 
portunity, but the earlier part had taken 
up HO much time that it bad to be cut to 
almost nothing. 

Hush. 



BOSTON BELLES. 

First and over all in popular interest 
amtuig the Williamsburg boys who packed 
the (Jayety this week to see the "Boston 
Belles" was Frankie Bailey. Miss Bailey 
herself had a pale part in the proceed- 
ings, but her handling of it was even 
more blond and colorless than the role 
itself. Beyond one song and a little talk, 

which were heard only by those who oc- 
cupied the first few rows. Miss Bailey 
did not figure in the proceedings con- 
spicuously, her business being to dress the 
stage with the Bailey undulating curves 
neatly set forth in white tights. Th« 
audience did not seem to know Miss Bailey 
At firat.^ „_ 



Both burlesques feature Clarence Wil- 
bur, a comedian who rather reminds one 
of Billy B. Van. Wilbur does fairly well, 
but makes the mistake of trying to do 

too much. ..^ ::'■■ :':^ ■■■ ^ '•:'■(■.■■'..■■'■:■'■>.■' ■ 

Throughout both burlesques the dress- 
ing is tasteful and lavish. The opening 
piece showed five or six changes and Amy 
Butler, who led a particularly snappy 
quintet of dancing girls. The chorus is 
unusually well drilled and animated. The 
dialogue for the greater part is without 
offense or suggestion, but crosses the lino 
once or twice. Wilbur is responsible for 
a nasty bit of business during his sketch 
in the olio. Jack Crawford and John 
Walters make a very good pair of 
"Rubes," and John Manning contributes 
an exceedingly clever dance in which he 
shows half a dozen new steps. 

There are seven numbers in the olio. 
Foster and Hughes open with a bag 
punching and burlesque boxing match. The 
straight man looks as though he might 
be clever on his feet and suggests that 
a swift boxing go would be more popu- 
lar with the audience than the burlesque 
bout. 

In the same way, John Walters, of 
Rice and Walters, gives evidence of being 
a first-rate tumbler, but confines himself 
to only a few tricks, spending most of 
his time in clowning. 

t»oe Flynn was the added feature. His 
monologue has a laugh for every clock 
tick while he is on the stage. Puns and 
language twists follow each other with 
a speed that lets many of the points get 
away. 

Clarence Wilbur followed with a sketch, 
"The New Scholar," in which much of 
the talk was so poor as to give the im- 
pression that it was extem. The busi- 
ness, while of the roughest sort, won the 
desired laughs. 

Little Amy Butler is billed as "The 
Girl from Dublin" and made herself a de- 
cidedly popular young person with Irish 
melodies. Having done so well she in- 
sisted upon telling the audience she was 
a Jewess, which although displaying com- 
mendable loyalty, is quite unnecessary. 

O'Brien and Buckley scored well with 
a comedy musical act. The man has an 
excellent comedy njethod Mn«l the sketch 
with which they have s(irroun<l»'<l their 
musical numbers is decidedly entertaining 
on its own account. 

Harper, Desmond and Hilliurd, colored, 
were the big hit of the sho>v, Aft<'r they 
had left the stage and tlie oj»ening chorus 
of the second biitjesj!.- v\as» on the ho>i>«e 
demanded titoie of them, Uu»h, 



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Shows of the Week 



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FIFTH AVENUE. 

The Fifth Avenue Theatre opened this 
week U8 a continuous houi«e with a gor- 
geous new interior and an international 
"name*' is that of Mrs. Laugtry (New 
"name" is that of Mrs. Langtry (New 
Acts). 

A fair but badly arranged bill was pro- 
vided for the Jersey Lily's setting. All 
tlie value of the entertainment was 
packed away after half-past four and a 
number of the Monday matinee audience 
became tired and left before Mrs. I^ang- 
Jry appeared^. 



The Royal Musical Kive lii (Uv eightW" 
place were the first to attract attention. 
The boys have provided themselves wiUi 
new white suits and look much better. 
The quintet has also wisely given up its 
American flag finish, which marred the 
pretty atmosphere of their offering. 

It came pretty hard for Lee Harrison, 
who is seen for the first time in the city 
this season. He followed Mrs. Langtry 
about five o'clock and played very con- 
siderably to the departing backs of the 
audience. At that he" did very well. He 
has a quantity of new talk, pieced out 
with the "Lovemakers* Union" story from 
his old monologue, but did best with sev- 
eral ''locals" bearing on the exodus and 
the "rough house" made by the stage 
crew. 

The Three Perry Sisters, tried out at 
Henderson's last summer, were a good 
deal of an aiiliction. The girls work like 
a trio of amateurs and their sketch is 
not entertaining. Nor have the girls 
enough ability either in the dancing or 
singing departments lo carry an offering 
of this sort. 

Fitzgerald and Gilday do a sidewalk 
conversation turn that just about passes. 
The comedy man has a fairly funny 
makeup and the talk strikes a fair aver- 
age of pointedness. 

Bresnah and Miller have altogether too 
much big word talk. A little of thijs is 
perhaps bearable, but in the quantities in 
which it is handed out by this team it 
becomes boresome in the extreme. The 
woman should give her partner half a 
chance in the duets. 

Williard Siinins and company made the 
laughing hit of the bill in a farcical 
sketch, "Flinder's Furnished Flat," which 
scored strongly notwithstanding it came 
late on the bill. It is keyed in about 
the same grade of humor as the Simon- 
(iardner sketch "The New Coachman," 
although the two are widely different in 
all essentials, the single point of re- 
semblance being the use of a tall step- 
ladder for clowning purposes. This is in 
use only for an instant. Mr. Simms is 
aided by a decidedly attractive girl, who 
remains unnamed on the program. The 
two close in one with first-rate burlesque 
imitations from iSiinms' old musical mono- 
logue. 

Hendrix and Prescott appeared, as did 
Al Burton, comedian. Burton is too ro- 
bust a person to do "sissy" stunts. His 
songs were fair but he missed fire with 
the talk. * : 

Archer and Crocker, Alenei and his 
monkey, Al Carleton and the Si.sters 
O'Meers were also on the bill. 



TWENTY-THIRD STREET. 

Kinma Cams is in the peculiar position 
this week of being the headliner at the 
'i'wenty-third Street and at the same time 
being placed just before the close. She is 
billed "Number 4" and her name in two- 
fotit electrics adorns the front elevation 
of the theatre. Miss Cams is singing four 
song) and her act is arranged about as 
when she was last seen, except that she is 
wearing a new gown, a creation of white 
lace in the princess style, that caused a 
hum of interest among the women. 

Carleton Macy and Maude Kdna Hall 
come over from the Fifty -eighth Street 
house for the secoiwl week in the city with 
Fiie^new "^etch "^TKe "^Magpie n nd t^ 
.lay.' The rural playlet appears to have 
stood the test of its first metropolitan 
showing, coming to its second week with- 
out material change. 'J'here seemed to be 
a few new lines of slang which helped to 
keep the dialogue bright. It is through 
the clever character drawing of the prin- 
i-ipals that the sketch is made to go, for 
there is scarcely any real dramatic action 
to the piece. 

The Kmpire Comedy Four need disci- 
plining. When a male quartet lacks the 
essentials of a good singing organization 
it is good policy as well as good business 
judgment to make a sort of marionette 
clowning performance of the act. But 
when, as in the present case, the four men 
have good voices and possess among their 
members a comedian who could, did he but 
try, be really funny in a quiet way, they 
commit an otrence against their own in- 
terests and against the good -nature of 
their audiences in making a knockabout 
a» robatic turn of their act. The German 
comedian is gifted with a decidedly amus- 
ing dialect and makes up well for a com- 
edy part. Instead of properly using the 
talents of which he is the steward, he 
sreks to make comedy out of the per- 
formance of hurling himself about the 
stage in extreme buffoonery and breaking 
up the singing numbers. 

The Mysterious Howards, a pair of Eng- 
lishmen who were seen last season in the 
Williams houses hereabouts, did exceeding- 
ly well with a thought transmision act, 
worked with unusual swiftness and smooth- 
iicss. They close with a particularly mys- 
tifying bit of work in which one of the 
men reads numbers of coins, bills, etc., 
hold by his partner in the audience. There 
i.s no talk to give cues for this, the 
"reader" Ix'ing blindfolded and facing away 
from the footlights. 

Hayes and Johnson pas.sed through with 
their "A Dream of Baby Days," thanks 
not a little to the curious vein of humor 
in Catherine Hayes and Miss Johnson's 
fieak high notes. The early talk is not 
especially funny, except as Miss Hayes 
niakes it so, her sister being rather light 
ri! native humor, but immense otherwise. 

Mathews and Ashley were shifted about 
a bit on the bill, but made good in an 
curlier position than that to which they 
were credited on the program. Scott and 
Wilson, who opened the bill, have a good 
**Uub<»" comedian and a competent 
"straight" man. The Rube is planted in 
the audience at the opening. 

Kochly Brothers, acrobats, closed the 
bill. Lyditt Dreams (New Acts) had the 
second place. 



■■ KEITH'S. .■■.V- ■.■••- • 
liardnins Electric Ballet (New Acts), 
billed as the headliner at the Union 
Square, pays salaries to twenty-five girls 
for a net result of seven minutes enter- 
tainment. It is due to this number that 
the show is over a few minutes after ten 
o'clock. Horace Wright, character singer, 
is also under New Acts. ■'"■■:■> ': 

Thomas J. Keough and company are 
featured in the protean sketch "The Way 
He Won Her." The sketch is a bit loose 
and inconsistent, being written about a 
series of character changes by Mr. 
.keough. Th*ire^.iir£__fiyt\^.ttf^tke^^^ 
along a little love story of a newspaper 
reporter. The characters were well done, 
although the makeup of the (Jernian music 
teacher would be the better for attention 
to the wig. Keough handles his voice and 

dialects very well indeed and rather gave 
the impression that he would succeed with 
a serious protean offering. 

Avery and Hart filled in more time than 
their contract called for, more because the 
audience refused to let them go than be- 
cause they were called upon by the short- 
ness of the bill to fill out. The comedian 
has a natural vein of negro humor and 
the "straight" man does admirably. The 
talk and business are bright throughout. 

Kelly and Violette make up a decidedly 
well dressed and smoothly working pair. 
They have a clear appreciation of what 
they can do best and have built up their 
act to get the most out of their respective 
abilities. Mr. Kelly has the better voice 
and handles the greater volume of music, 
and his partner, although she has an 
agreeable voice, does well to contribute 
her beauty and three or four bewildering 
gowns to the offering, without attempting 
too much in the vocal department. 

Julia Redmond and company do an ex- 
ceedingly uproarious sketch in which bur- 
lesque methods are used to an unlimited 
extent. A laugh at any cost seems to be 
the object of the clowning. 

The Four Fords return to Fourteenth 
street, although they played the same 
house late last season. The act remains 
unchanged and as j)opular as ever. 

Dave Nowlan retired from the bill Wed- 
nesday evening and Lee Harrison, who is 
playing at the Fifth Avenue, was pressed 
into service to fill the gap. 

Dorsch and Russell hold to their excel- 
lent novelty musical act showing the rail- 
road set and electrical effects, and Frank- 
lyn and Eva Wallace (New Acts) are seen 
in New York for the first time with their 
new act. 

Belle Veola started with a French song, 
then made the startling change to black 
tights and did contortion stunts with 
rings after the numner of Mile. Latona. 
Miss Veola makes a decidedly attractive 
appearance, but her French is of native 
manufacture and the sudden transition 
from character songs to contortion is 
rather a leap. 

The Artoise Brothers with a comedy 
bar act closed the bill in good style. The 
two men, made up as clowns, get away 
from the ordinary knockabout pairs and 
develop an effective and original sort of 
comedy. 



PASTOR'S. 

After the newcomers are removed from 
the list at Pastor's this week the. bill 
simmers down to old favorites, with one 
or two exceptions. Merritt and Ireland, 
Meeh International Trio, Banks Bieazeale 
Duo, Hagan and Westcott and Karrera 
are under New Acts. 

Elmer Tenley, "the Manhattan Man," 
with his monologue, playing a quick re- 
turn date, is the headliner, with .Arthur, 
Mildred and Stella Boylan in "Jack and 
Jill" the added attraction. Mrs. Boylan, 
the mother, will soon have to decide 
whether her children shall be acrobats 
or actors. In the present sketch they at- 
"tein pt to be b^tb and isitcceetl oijly i»= 
the acrobatics. The boy and girl are too 
young to be acting "prodigies." Better 
wouUl it be for them to have something 
to tit their usefulness. At present they 
can amuse the young only. Perhaps a 
piece for* the children only, with the 
mother as stage manager in the wings, 
would be more to the average auilience's 
taste. ^ 

With "Alice, Where Art Thou (ioingV" 
"Two Little Sailor Boys" and "Won't You 
('«une Dvcr to My Ilouse'^" J. A. Driscoll 
.s(or«'d largely, with the aid of well-designed 
slides. The choruses were thrown on tiie 
sheet and sung by the house. "Won't 
You Come Over to My House "i*" si»cnus des- 
tined for popularity. This is tlie thinl 
consecutive week it has been the cause 
of a hit at Pastor's. 

Miles and Nitram in their comedv 
sketch overlook the importance of Miss 
Nitram's dancing, which is the only valu- 
able item in it. She should Ilafice early, 
hmg and often. That will help, as will 
some attention by Mr. Miles to his clothes. 

Few if any sleight-of-hand workers can 
excel A. K. Caldera at palming, which 
he does not near make enough of, prefer- 
ring hat juggling for the comedy. He 
should extend the palming, especiafly with 
cards. The closing trick is good and 
showy, while he looks well on the stage. 
The time occupied by the balancing on 
the slack wire seems wasted. It could be 
more beneficially utilized. 

The Stanleys were known to the Pas- 
tor patrons. Their sketch is called "A 
Matrimonial Tangle" and during the ac- 
tion Miss Stanley sings, revealing what 
must have been at one time an excellent 
voice. It is still pleasant, altlumgh not 
always strong. 

As a performer on the wire Mile. Zoar 
is inclined to grow kittenish with her 
audience through several changes she 
strips down to. The audience is not at 
all shocked when she unbuttons a shirt 
waist over evident underdressing, giving 
the young woman a barrel-like api)earance. 
There is little else to the act other than 
the display of national colors while bal- 
ancing on one or both feet. La Clair 
and West opened the show with "A Drop 
Into Society." It is a sketch. Although 
it ran nineteen minutes the bill was over 
at 10:05, including the pictures. 

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September 18, when the Mardi dras was 
held in Luna Park, Cleveland, brought rec- 
ord receipts for the season to the park 
management. 



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THI SET TIME FOB REHEABBAL WILL BE 

rouvo roLLOwiBO bams or theatbe. 



NIOHTIBOALES. 

Buffalo. 
Oh. wbat Jojr! We arrived iu Buffalo Sunday 

. iKKiu and were mot at the depot by Ed Daniela 
Hitb biu autouinbllea. After a spin we went to 

.; tbe Hotel l>aulela and we took a "Desperate 

. t.'bance," as tbe company by tbat name was Just 

^ lenviiig for (Cleveland. Then Harry bbarpiro, tbe 
agent of Curtln's show, blew In. We beld blm 
up. Ue bought thirty cents' worth and charged 

' It to bl8 manager, Lou Stork, who is a bird, and 
that's no kid. i>burplro b<»ugbt a new suit in 

. Montreal, a bat In Torunlo and a pair of shoes 
iu Buffalo. Now he Ih almost dressed and looks 
funny. Dan Gracey went to bed at 3 P.M. with 
u Montana City. He got up at 7 I'.M. We car- 
ried him back to bed again at 1 A.M. Ue kept 

' right on dreaming about bis bouse In Fair Haven 
• and the tire dopni-tmeut of which he is the big 

, flil«>f. Hichy W. Crnig played poker and lost 
everything but hU wife, ho he's lucky, anyway. 

.' (lur leader, Dave Morgan, broke three strings on 
hiri Uddle trying (o tranHpose. Kenneth, our elec- 
trician, was saving up for a new hat. Next week 
w'! go to Detroit and he cannot work, as tbe 

union en id he needs a rest, so no new hat for 

~~0iTr Kenneth, I>eor ffirap. Ada- Burnett be4c4 A 
bum Joke aliout a lemon, then laughed herself to 
sleep at 4 A.M. and the bar cIohimI for two 
hourx. Regards to all the Lemon Kids and the 
lemon crop. THE tJRAPHOPHONB KID. 



80TH CENTVBY MAIDS. 

Pittsburg. 
" Finished our week in Cleveland and had tbe 
full orchcHtra on the Mtage Saturday night, so 
win leave It for you to determine how they liked 
^ the show. .Much fun was had at Joe Watson's 
expense last week, as he was keeping tbe Jewish 
holiday . No one seemed to be able to figure 
out why he was stopping at a |2 per day hotel 
and not eating. We are ail very sorry to say 
that we lay off next week, although Morton and 
Diamond tilled in the wei>k at Keith's now Toledo 
boU8e and Jue Watsun and Toma Ilanlun are go- 
ing to New York. All the married women have 
their savings of the seasun guarded very closely, 
for the naughty husbands have a new fad — "shoot- 
ing crap." Billy Noble from I>oulsviIle is to 
' blame. Brooks and Vedder and Sliarp Brothers 
' are playing at the vaudeville house this week ami 
were among the on"ly callers at our theatre. 
News is Mcar«-e. Every one going sightseeing In 
WsHhington next week. So long. 

THK BOSTON KH). 



MIOHTIMOALES. 

, Montreal. 

We are still flying. We flew into Toronto last 
Sunday amid shell and fire and were received with 
open arms by our English neighbors, who turned 
out in full force to welcome the "Nightingales," 
and now we hold the record. We went over to 
King Edward's Hotel to see the King, but be wan 
Itusy playing seven-up with Sam Dessauerv so we 

, bad a pleasant time with the Scotch (high-balls) 
''. until they put us out. Dan Oracey met all of bis 
Irish friends In the corner saloou and he had to 
carry Craig home. This week we are back In 
Amerita, Buffalo. Tbe "Nightingales" have all 
flown to their roosts and to-morrow they will fly 
to the Lafayette Theatre. 

THE ORAPHOPHONR KID. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 
By FRANK WIESBERO. 

VARIETY'S ChUago oftlce. 

79 S. Clark Street. 

MAJKSTK; (Lyman B. (Jlover, mgr. f<»r Kohl 
& Castle. Monday resenrxal 9).- Even the fastidi- 
ous vaudeville auditors who Invariably voice com- 
plaints and displeasures as to the quality of en- 
terlnlnnient provided at the vaudeville theatres 
have emphatically agreed that the bill this week 
is one that merits distinction as the most diversi- 
fied seen at this theatre in a long time. The In- 
st antaneons Hurccss achlev«Hl by Coram, the Eng- 
lish ventrllo«)uist, on his first appearance in this 
city was r"markable. Never has a foreign artist 
in vaudeville here created so much favorable 
eomment. Coram has a iM)werful voice. His enun- 
eiation is clear and perfect. A "crying child" is 
Iiifrodnced at the finish In a niil<ine manner. It 
is the most singular and accomplished exhibition 
of ventrilo(]ulsm ever seen here. Amelia Snm- 
mervllle has her name in large type In the lobby. 
Her performance consists of talk about her "ex- 
perience" on the stage, implicating other notables 
In the profession In the fairly good monologue, 
presumaldy prepared in haste. She still retains 
her statuesque charm and pleasant personality. 
Ctiarles F. Semon Is an excellent comedian and 
musician and dresses to look "narrow." The 
rt'fln«>d musical offering of Klein, Ott Brothers and 
Nicholson was thoroughly enjoyed. Bert I^vy has 
a novel device for his caricatures of prominent 
men and the screen arrangement enhances the per- 
formance considerably. It is almost identical with 
the perfv/rmance given at the International last 
season, only that the "model" Is absent. The 
Nevaros have added a numlx-r of new tricks In 
their equlllbrlstlc wire performance. The act is 
much improved and runs better and smoother than 
on previous visits. There is nothing new in the 
act of Knight Brothers and Sawtelle, the excel- 
lent dancing of the trio and the grotesque ec- 
centricities of one of the brothers making the of- 
fering enjoyable. Lynn, Fay and Young are cap- 
tivating young women. They can sing popular 
•ongs, dance well and are blessed with good looks 



and vivacity, a combination most essential for them 
to occupy a prominent place on this week's bill. 
Uartelle Brothers show different styles of ska- 
torial dancing, tbe feats cleverly accomplished. 
Mtf cart's dogs and monkeys gave their familiar 
exhibition and Nellie Revere sings well. 

OLY.MPIC (Abe Jacobs, mgr. for Kohl A Cas- 
tle. Monday rehearsal 9). — Tbe Military Octette 
is tbe leading attraction in spectacular musical 
numbers. Henri French, Palfrey and Uoefler, 
Ueorge Wilson and Gardner and Revere returned 
with their offerings. Gilroy, Uaynes and Mont- 
gomery present a comedy sketch; Juggling Thorns 
have some good tricks in that line. On the bill 
also are Robert Nome, whistler and instrumental- 
ist; Majestic Trio, Brandt and Lorano, Lena Dav- 
enport, Jarvis and Tudur, Hall and (Jolbum. 

HAYMARKET (Wm. Newkirk, mgr. for Kolil 
A Castle. Monday rehearsal 9). — Those on the 
bill here this week and reviewed recently at tbe 
other houses, are: The Vassar Girls, Rapoll, Car- 
son and Willard, Willa Holt Wakefield, Fred Len- 
nox and company, Swor Brothers, Aurie Dagwell, 
Campbell and Brady, Chas. U. Duncan, Brothers 
De Van and the Simmons. 

SID J. EUSON'S (Sid J. Euson, mgr. ) .—Modern 
ideas and development of burlesque slated by the 
t-nterprlslng manager for this season have so far, 
with one or two exceptions, failed to materialize 
at Euson's Theatre, where the better class of 
audiences are quick to demonstrate appreciation 
and willing to encourage the progress of bur- 
lesque. It is said that better shows are on the 
way and much interest is held in their coming. 
The two burlesques, "The Phonograph Girls" and 
"The Prince of Jersey," presented by the "Jersey 
I^ilies" conipany are iHexcusable for varioua rea- 
sons — first, above all, the staging. In the pro- 
ducer's endeavor to create something new be has 
allowed a phonograph concern to take possession 
of the set with a lot of untidy and cheap adver- 
tising matter. The dull elements scattered around 
the phonographs help to "t>oo8t" the sales of tbe 
machines. The comedy, what there is of it, over- 
burdens Frank F. Miller, Dutch comedian, and 
laughter is at a premium. The comedian is not 
at fault entirely in tbe distinct comedy part and 
will Improve. The other male parts are almost 
insig;nlficant as far as their worth is concerned 
and they appear when the curtain is about to be 
lowered on the finale. There is a lot of weak 
material — so much of it that olMscurlty pervades 
throughout and tbe monotony is relieved only by 
musical numbers now and then. The closing piece 
shows a gaudy set and the comedy runs with 
inoreused sfteed and swlflncbs on the part of the 
eomcdlans taken from the olio. Among tbe women 
Fanny Vedder Is the most prepossessing and am- 
bltoiisi In everything she dm's, In-ne May is a 
newcomer and her unfamiliarity with the lines 
was noticeable. She has a good voice. Connie 
Ward is given several numbers with tlie chorus 
and does very well, but most of the selections are 
quiet, and the girls, excepting a few, are too 
solemn and cold. It is not a good-looking chorus 
by any means and there are no voices in it. 
Several changes in costumes are made, with lil>eral 
display of tights. U*be show is free from sug- 
gestlveness and could be made good entertain- 
ment with better staging and new life. The olio 
consists of Gordon and Chacon, ordinary colored 
singing and dancing act; Woods and (ireene look 
neat in evening dress and their talk proved amus- 
ing. The Hebrew comedian can improve in make- 
up. Wni. Baker and Grace Robinson have an 
acrol>atic dancing act in which the woman doi>s 
most of the hard work. The talk and antics of 
the man are so old that they are scarcely ever 
resurrected nowadays. Fanny Vedder, assisttMl 
by Franklin and Robinson, two young men, in- 
troduce some good dancing. The iM'st number on 
the olio is the comedy horlKontal l>ar and casting 
act of Boweu and Lina. It is the best of its 
kind seen here in a long time. 

FOLLY (J. A. Fennessy, mgr.).— A lively con- 
glomeration of nonsense with lively comedians 
and a Joco«*ely vivacious chorus that sparkles in 
manifold gay costumes are revealed in the two 
burlesques offered by D.lnkins' "Yankee Doodle 
(Jlrls." "Tim Sullivan's Chowder" opens the p*T 
formance with James F. I.*onard as the principal 
instigator of hilarious merriment, such as the 
familiar brand of burlesque implies, without striv- 
ing to elevate to the more pretentious order. It 
Is leal burlesque as seen at this house for several 
years and replete with broad episodes and ma- 
terial In places but not carried to extremes. The 
eoniedluns are alert and seem to know what they 
are doing or intend to do in tlie rapid succession 
of situations. The closing piece is called "Sulli- 
van on Guard at the Philippines" and the scene 
shows an American camp in the Islands, The 
plot is lost in the concoction of satirical inci- 
dents that give no respite for un«'easlng laughter. 
The finale Is glvn over to hnmonvTs war tacth-s 
and noisy situations. Tlie principal male parts 
are handled by .Mr. Ix^jnard, Billy Hart. Lawrence 
Crane, Joe McDeVltt and Andy Kelly. Clara 
Whitney has the leading female imrt and she acts 
It with dash and spirit. May Crawford Is chic. 
The chorus, with the exception of one or two 
girls, is diligent and shapely In face and figure. 
There are nine complete changes of c<»Btume, each 
varljMl and tasty and full of color withoiit dis- 
play of prodigality or vain ostentation. Dark blue 
hussar suits and tights are appropriately intrc)- 
duced In the finale, with striking effect. The 
olio is opened by McDeVltt afid Kelly, excellent 
eccentric dancers. Billy Hart and Anna Yaye, 
assisted by Marie Jansen. have a novel burlesqiie 
cm ventriloquism with a few crude remarks border- 
ing on Buggestlveness, but not stretched t<x> far. 
The sketch when pro|>erly toned could serve well 
In vaudeville, James and Davis have a diverting 
conversation In which some timely talk siid fairly 
good singing brought laughter. The feature Is 
I,awrence Crane and company In magical tricks 
and illusions, using an elaborate setting and ac- 
cessories to introduce the clever performance 
which mystified and entertained the audience. 

TROCAPERO (I. M. Welngarden. mgr.).— 
Irwin's "Big Show" gives the State street patrons 
of this theatre the same shapely girls and bur- 
lesque seen on the North Side last week. Nat 
Carr plays the Hebrew character part formerly 
had by Patsy Judge, and the change is for the 
l>etter. 

NOTF«S.— .\sher lA'vy has been promoted from 



treasurer at tbe Garrick to the mauagemeut of 
the t^ubert Theatre at Kansas City. Carl Harris 
succeeded him here. — Tboa. J. L, Brown, preal- 
dent of the Florida State Fair, has booked $16,000 
of vaudeville attractions through Barnes' Western 
Exchange, for Tampa, Fla., November 14 to 29.— 
Joe M. Howard, formerly assistant general agent 
of tbe Pawnee Bill show, is now general repre- 
sentative of Jacob & Jennon's burlesque attrac- 
tions.— George Yeoman has returned from the Pa- 
cific Coast, after playing thirty -five weeks of the 
Sullivan-Consldiue and Lutwiski time. — Ruff and 
Rayuol are rehearsing a new sketch written by 
Myles McCarthy, entitled "The Jail Bird'a Flight." 
employing four players altogether. — Fred Trues- 
dell and Fern Melrose will make their vaudeville 
debut in a novelty singing sketch "The Grand 
Dad." — Ilulena Frederick, the operatic aoprano, 
who has been seriously ill with typhoid fever, is 
repDrted to be out of danger. She was singing at 
the Majestic when taken sick and bad to be re- 
moved to a private hospital, where it is reported 
she is getting along nicely. — Carlton and Terre 
will leave Irwin's "Big Shou'." They will play 
the Western Association time iu vaudeville. — The 
Great (}oldln Russian Troupe of singers and 
dangers closed their engagement at Riverview 
Park and departed for New York, where three 
others will Join them, augmenting tbe act to 
eleven peopb-. They are booked on tbe coast 
and open In Seattle In atM>ut four weeks. — Adele 
Oswald returned to the "The Land of Nod" com- 
pany after two weeks of vaudeville. She refuses 
to sing three times a day. 



PITTSBURG. PA. 

> By JAS. T. TYNDALL, 

VARll-yrY'S Pittsburg Ottlce, 
309 4tb Ave., Room 207. 

GRAND (Harry Davis, mgr. and prop.).— The 
finest bill of the season is given this week. 
Iloudini Is as mystifying as ever; his trunk mys- 
tery is so strange as to be uncanny and tbe ease 
with which he escapes from the manacles that 
have held the most vicious criminals and tbe 
added feature of his escape from a straitjacket 
fastened on by the ofllclals of the Western Peni- 
tentiary is a marvelous exhiblticu of skill. Ed- 
wards and Edouin in "Bachelor's Dream," were 
liked. The Four Htirveys prove to be the best wire 
walkers seen here; C. Troba, shadowgraiihs, clever 
and amusing; the A 111 vita Troubadours, good musi- 
cians; John and Ray Bailey, fair turn; Ethel Mac- 
Donough, formerly with the "Fadettes," one of 
the big hits. She is pretty, daintily costumed 
and has a catchy program. The Sliarp Brothers, 
(lancers; lA}well and I»well, acrobats, please; 
Hnsiks and Vedder; Edestus, a good equilibrist, 
and the pictures make up tlie bill. 

ACADE.MY (11. W. Williams, Jr., mgr.).— 
Maury Kraus' "Twentieth Century Maids" are 
pleasing big houses. The girls are pretty, can 
sing and the comedians real laughmakers. In tbe 
opening burlesciue Toma Hanlon, Mamie Diamond, 
Hilly Noble. Joe Watson and James Morton have 
tbe important parts. The closing burlesque la 
bright and clever. Grace Foster, Max Hitter, Joe 
Watson and William Noble led the fun. In the 
olio l\)ma Hanlon won much applause with 
siHigs. Rltter and Foster made good in songs 
and dances. Joe Watson In Hebrew impersona- 
tions, Morton and Diamond in a one-act farce 
caused laugliter, and Cornalla and Eddie in their 
novel specialty all nade good. 

GAYFrrY (Jas. E. Orr, mgr.).— Tlie burlesque 
world has little better to offer than the Bon Ton 
Extravaganza Company, which* is playing to big 
aucUences, and which proves that it is worth 
while to exjK'ud as much money and effort on a 
burlesque aggregatbm as on the regulation rousi- 
<iil comedy. "A Pousse Cafe" is the title of the 
opening musical satire. In which Guy Rawson and 
Harry Bent ley are the chief funmakers and in 
whl«ii Frances Clare, the charming soubrette, sing.n 
many new songs. The vaudeville portion includes 
tlie Six Darlings; Trainor and Dale, who won 
repeated recalls; Young Brothers in new acrobatic 
feats; Pierce and Oi>p. "German Emperors," and 
Browning and Bentley, Hebrew paro<llsts. went 
well. The audlen«'e became very enthusiastic after 
a dance by Nellie Flinerson during the opening 
number ami the applause delayed the action nearly 
as much as the feature acts In the olio. 



PHILADELPHIA. 
By GEORGE M. YOUNG (Kinks). 
KEITH'S (If. T. Jordan, mgr. Mcnnlay rehear- 
snl <♦::!«>). Eleven of the acts on this week's bills 
^v•M■e si'en here for the first time, one offering 
••'Ihe Fisd's Errand," new in the East, with Lucy 
riid LiicUt as principals (New Acts>. On pai»er 
the bill lacked attractiveness, but its entertaining 
qiitilltles proved n siirprls«» and the audiences 
which «Towde(! the playhouse all week must 
liii\»' received their money's worth, particularly 
ll:o>*e who Indulge in varh'ty for laughing pur- 
poses only. Colonel Gaston Bortleverry \tor- 
foiined many Interesting feats with rifle and re- 
volver, the slHHitlng of the dress from one of his 
lemnle n^sHtaiits being a bit more spe<iacular 
tliitii ><klllfiil. considering that the bulls-eyes were 
llrlnly vls|l»le to the «'yes of the ainllence. The 
plimo idaytng scored and the act was a success. 
Max Wilt's "Four Colleens" were well received 
In their ilnmng. AH have good voices and their 
M'h'ctloiis well chosen. Bartholdl's c<»ckatooH was 
an Interesting feature for the lover of pets. The 
birds lire well trained and perform without much 
urging. Violet Black and her a-slstant presented 
loi the first time a sketch called "A West Point 
Regulotlon" which has nothing to recomniend It. 
Willie Wesion, a recruit from the burlesque, was 
warmly welcomed. He gave <»ne of the few ac- 
ceptable Imitations of Georjre .M. Cohan and sang 
sexeral soni:s pleasingly. He was encored until 
for<ed to excuse himself on Mrmday. Howard 
ond IIo^^ard were heard here for the first time 
mid made g<KMl with several excellent paro<lics 
which were admirably rendered. The audlem-e 
ie<;illcd I lie boys w>veral times. One of the 
fea lures was the success met with by GiMirge 



E\ans, who played his fifth and last week. Out- 
side of "The Fadettes" no act has ever been 
played here so long ami at no time during bis 
engagement has he failed to go big. Tlie Four 
M^htons in a series of poses and band balancing 
feats which displayed great strength won favor. 
This act is admirably dressed. Adair and Dahn 
Introduced a clever wire act, although many of 
their trlckh are familiar. ITie Prampln Trio 
ideti.sed with a gooti musical act. The Hurleys, 
gvmnusts, and Juliet Winston, a vocalist, were 
also entertaining. The Crotty Trio, two wom^n 
and a man, offered a singing and dancing turn 
which was heartrending. 

LYCEl .M (J. G. Jermon, mgr.).— Hyde's "Blue 
RIMsm GIrlH" furnished tlie week's atrtactlon, 
ofierlng a minstrel first part of which the musical 
numbers were the feature. Prominent enter- 
tainers were Pauline Newton, Violet Holmes and 
the Eight English Belles; Mackie, Davis and 
(ompany in a sketch, "The Green and Gold"; 
the Musical Bennetts in an illusion specialty 
and the La Belle Comedy Four. "Buster Brown 
and His Dog Tige at the Dog Show" closed the 
bill. Business was good all week. 

TROC.VDERO.— Watson's Burlesquera beaded 
by William B. Watson pleased large audiences 
this week. Watson tries hard to keep within 
lM>unds with his ctmiedy and succeeds in making 
itiM points plain enough to satisfy those who are 
not looking for the real raw goods. His com- 
pany is large in size as well as numliers and 
a\erages fair aa to looks. Tbe Millershlp Siitera, 
local favorites, were well received and do good 
work. Tlie Yaraamota Brothers perform clever 
wire and i>erch tricks. Orletta and Taylor 

pleased with their singing. Grade and Reynolds 
.-umuscd witb An old style knockabout act. "Tbe 
Mormons" and "The Bashful Venai" mn fonnj — 
burlestiuers. 

CASINO (Ellas & Koenlg, mgra.).— The oUo 
carries the honors of the Rentz-b'antley abow tbia 
week. "Forty Minutes from Broadway" and a 
burlesque on "Sapho" serve as vehicles for In- 
tio<lucing the entire company In a hodgepodge of 
commonplace comedy and musical numbers which 
Is not above the ordinary. Nina Bartolini, 
Ionise Marshall, Marion Blake, Burt Eaton, Nat 
Wixon and the others do as well as possible with 
the material at hand. Charlea D. Webber of- 
fered a Juggling act that was hardly fair; Allen 
and Daltou pleased with their musical act; Louise 
Marshall and Dottle King have a fair alater act; 
Wlxon and Eaton amuse<I with tbelr basa drum 
and comedy act and Colton and Darrow have sev- 
eral go«Hl songs. Ttie Zanoraa close the bill with 
borne clever cycling tricks. Business was good 
all wiH'k and "amateur night" brought oat a 
crowded house. 

BIJOU (William Jennings, mgr,).— Williams' 
"Ideals" show is back again with tbe same bill 
offered here as the opening attraction. The bill 
Is a giMsl one and was as well received aa on 
its first visit. 

YE PARK.— "Patsy In Politics" U Billy B. 
Van's new vehicle which opened this week to 
pleased audiences. Rose Beaumont is Van'a prin- 
cipal support. There are a number of mualcal 
hits in the show. 

(J RAND OPERA HOUSE.— Charles H. Yale'a 
"Painting the Town" holds the bill tbia week. 
It is a spectacular musical farce, well staged and 
elalKirately costumed. Halliday and Leonard, Al- 
mon Knowies. Claude Lightner, Mazle King, Editb 
lyowe, Louise Snnford, Kitty St. Claire and Ro- 
salie Lynch are prominent on the program. Busi- 
ness goo<l all week. 

GEORGE .M. YOUNO (Kinks). 



CINCINNATI, O. . 

By HABUY HESS. 

VARIETY'S Cincinnati Ofllce, 
107 Bell Block. 

OLYMPIC (D. S. McCoy, mgr. Sunday rehearsal 
10). — (ireene Brothers, Jugglers and club swingers, 
open, clever. Bell Trio are good singers. The 
finale was not liked. Barney Fagan aaslsted by 
Henrietta Byron was another act not much cared 
for. Walters and Prouty, seen here for the first 
time, were one of the hits of the bill. Jewel's 
Mannlklns is a big act which of its kind la s 
wonder. Al Weston in "The New Reporter" 
keeps the audience In convulsions from the mo- 
ment he comes on until the close. The act Itself 
does not amount to so mnch, but the comedy of 
.Mr, Weston and his four assistants make It a big 
scream. J<ihn T. Kelly in "A (isme of CJonn" 
is very gtsxl, Edna Aug please<l greatly. Barber 
Richie Trio, cyclists, pleasantly close the bill. 
Next week: Trlxle Frlganea, the Three Meers, 
Burke and Dempsey, Romeo and Juliet, Adolph 
ZInk, Cliarles and Fanny Van, Edwin Keougb and 
company, and a headline a<-t not yet announced. 

COLUMBIA THEATRE (H. M. Zlegler, mgr. 
Sunday rehearsal 10:.'{0).— Week 30: Anstin Wslsb 
opens with monologue VSeeIng New York." Audi- 
ence In uproar during his act. Quaker City 
Quartet, excellent singing comblnatbm. George 
Felix, Lydia Barry and Emily Barry in "The 
Boy Next Disir," seen here so often that the 
sketch was not liked. Mile. Argo Kastron. 
viollnlste. Is an artist and with better knowledge 
of vaudeville will find a place on any bill. Dan 
Burke and his "School Girls" were one big bit. 
Les Freres Patty, acrobats, are clever. Paul 
Barnes, monologue, one long laugh. Virginia Rarl 
and her "Johnnies" divided the honors. Seen 
here for the first time, she will }>e expected often 
hereafter. Kaufmann Troupe, fine. Next week: 
Henry Lee, Car<m and Herbert. Avon Comedy 
F'oiir. nines and Remington, Helena Frederick, 
Ilennlngs, liewis and Hcnningn, Murray K. Hill 
and DInus Troup*'. 

PEOPLE'S (James B. Fennessy, mgr.).— "The 
Americans" present a musical biirletta by Dave 
Marlon, entitled "Mixed Pickles," with the fol 
lowing cast: Will II. Ward. Henry Bergman. 
Jolly Zetih. Robert Ulirgln*, Joe C*s»k. Fred Bar- 
low, (!ladys Clark, Olga U«»Iler, Mae .Melville. 
fJeraldlne Tliorslev, Carrie l/cMar, Viola Clayton. 
Vivian Hoff.nan. Mildred Bent, Clara Holland. 
Carrie Date, Jesale Rlker, Nettle Wheeler, Tina 
Allen. Bessie Steljrer and Madge Paull. The 
comedy work of Ward. Bergman and Jolly Zeb 
was equal to the rei|ulrements, but at times slap- 
sticks were resorted to. Tlic settings were fair, 



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New York, Oct. 6, 1906. 



No. 8 



"AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL 
LEAD THEM" 

A IMBUJ BADY SOISO 

OKAl. K. HAXSn. 

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life. Profeialonal copies now resdy. Send for 
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while the costames of tbe cboras were up to tbe 
arerage. Because of a severe cold Miss MelriUe 
wss not sble to do herself Justice, but otherwise 
the women In the cast did fairly well. The part 
assumed by Miss Roller in the table scene at tbe 
close Is unnecessary. In the olio were: Tbe 
Breakaway Barlows, who have Improved aince 
last seen here snd did nicely. Melville and 
Roller, "sister act" have rapid-fire talk that gets 
laughs. The Empire Trio are good dnnccrH, but 
the female part rather weak vocally. Marie 
Stuart Dodd, violinist, is good. Jolly Zeb \* fuuuy 
and has a good voice. It Is a pleasure to see him 
before the footlights. Next week: "Merry 
Makers." 

STANDARD (Charles B. Arnold, mgr.).— 
"World Beaters." not up to the standard of 
■hows that have appeared at this theatre so far 
this season, but hss a pleasing olio. "Caught at 
Last" Is the title of the llrst psrt. in which 
John T. Hanson, Frank Brock way. Fred J. Warren. 
James S. Kearney, May Gehbart, Maybel Drew. 
Blanche Melrose, May Corey and Cherry Spencer 
and ■ large chorus take part. The musical num- 
bers are well rendered, tbe come<Iy fairly well 
done and tbe chorus well gowned and trained. 
Tbe closing burlesque. "Tbe Isle of Rubbernecks," 
Is good, "The Demon Dsnce" being beautiful. The 
olio has the following: Bohsnnon and Corey, 
lUustrsted songs; Hanson and Drew in "Tlie 
Village Bill Poster." grest set full of comedy 
and a big hit; Nible and Spencer, dancers; Wsr- 
ren and Brockway, musiclana; Lea RomanoH, 
dancers, sre all more than pleasing. Next week: 
"Tbe Dainty Duchess." 



ALBAVT. ». T. \ ^^ 

EMPIRE (Thos. R. Henry, res. mgr.).— Week 
1, three days: "The Osy Masqueraders" are 
holding forth at this thestre and are the means 
of crowding the house. Chss. Psrrell, character 
comedian, good; Blossom and Dorr, vocalists and 
dancers, excellent; Jas. E. and Lucia Cooper, well 
received; Lena Le Coovier, "tbe harelip girl," 
good; Ooates Oundy's "Original Watermelon 

Trust." the bit of the evening. PROCTOR'S 

(Howard Graham, res. mgr.). — Week 1: The 
Sleedes offered s black srt set which wss very 
good; Jullsn Rose. Hebrew comedisn, kept tbe 
audience In good humor; Tbe Garrisons in "An 
Ancient Romsn" was enjoyed; Conn and Conrad, 
comedlsns snd gymnasts, were excellent; Monroe, 
Msck and Lawrence In their farce "Tbe Servant 
Girl Question" were good; Diamond and Smith, 
Illustrated songs, pleased; Kenney and Hollls, 
sidewalk converaationallsts, good; J<^n snd Mae 
Borke, trick piano playing, enjoyed. 

MARTEL. 



AZXEVTOWV. PA. ^ 

ORPHEUM (Sam Myers, mgr.).— Week 1: 
Oertle Reynolds and Twirley Girlies, Including 
Msdelalne Delmar, very good; Foster and Foster, 
hit; Gallagher and Barrett, laughing bit; Mr. and 
Mrs. Jimmy Barry, won hearty applause; LIbby 
and Trayer, pleasing: Coakley and McBrlde. good; 
Paul LaCroIx, good Juggler. MACK. 



ALTOOVA. PA. 

ELEVENTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE (I. C. 
Mlsblsr, mgr.). — "Black Crook Burlesquers." 28- 
29. Good performance. The specialties between 

acts particularnily pleasing. NOTE. — The new 

thestre has changed the name from the Bijou 
to the Lyric Theatre and announce they will 
open some time in October with Keith vsudevlUe. 

C. O. C. 



APPLETOX, Wn. 

BIJOU (Chet Scott, mgr. Mondsy rehearsal 
11:16), — Singer's animals, bit; O. King, comedian, 
fair; Chatham Sisters, very good; Baby Irma 
Wlckoff and company, good sketch; Alice Saylor, 
Illustrated songs; Msrvelous Russell, fine ring act; 
Kalacratus, Juggler, very good; Ames and Lamb, 
good. GEORGE KOHLKR. 



BALTIMORE, XD. 

ALBAUQH'S (Irwin A Luescber. mgrs.).— Week 
1: George Tbstcber, tbe minstrel, received ovs- 
tion. Woodwsrd's Seals come next in tbe ap- 
preciation of tbe audience Tbe Kaufman Sin- 
ters pleased; Gardner and Stoddard, well received 
Edna Loby. Impersonator, fair; big. Germinal. 



baritone, well received. The , local stock sketch 
compnny in "The Night Owls" wss saved by the 
good work of Russ Wbytsl. Wm. J. O'Heam In 
s short Irish sketch, sssisted by Jos. Manning, 
four children and a greyhound, met with a warm 

reteption. MARYLAND (Jamea L. Keman. 

owner). — Mabel McKluley won tbe place ahe de- 
Herves ss topllner. Arthur Whltelsw, mono- 
logue, .nlmve tbe average: Five Columbians, only 
fair; Jnlla Kingitley and liewis Nelson in "After 
the Honeymoon." pleased; Manhattan Comedy 
Fi'ur, Mcored; The Balzars In different feats won 
spprovsl; Besisle Vsldsre Troupe of female blcy- 
cIlHtM. tremendous applnuse. GAYBTV (Colum- 
bia AmuHement Co. Win. L. Ballauf, mgr.). — 
It4>h Manchester's "Vanity Fair." Opening and 
cIuKlng features aoaiethliig above the average. 
Olio good and deservetl tbe appreciation it re- 
ceived. Hassan Ben All's Troupe, including ten 
people, won the best attention. MONUMEN- 
TAL (Empire Circuit Co. Sam. Dawson, mgr.). — 
Miner's "Merry BurleMiuers." a two-act musicsl 
ctmedy entitled *Tlie Mummy Girl." shove the 
average and pleased. An olio that waa sstisfac- 
tory made out tbe balance of tbe program. 

C. B. LEWIS. 



BATTLE CREEK, MICH. 

BIJOU (W. 8. Butterfleld, mgr. Monday re- 
hesrssl 10:40). — Kresko and Groves, comedy 
sketch, fair; Marie Heclow. dancer, good; Charles 
Ileclow, eccentric comedian, very good; Otoro Jap 
Family of tumblers, great; M. L. Barret, lUus- 
trsted songs, good. N. RITCHIE:. 



BAT CITT, MICH. 

ALVARDO (Sam Marks, mgr.).— Miles and Ray- 
niund, comedy sketch, fair; Shorty and Lillian 
De Witt. "Tbe Soubrette and tbe Lilliputian," 
good; Ekl Gray, the story teller, does very well; 
Kc>Mer IVio, sensational <*omedy acrobats, well re- 
ceived; John Hsrty. Juggler, very good; Cecelia 
Weston, comedienne, fslr; Stevens and Norton. 

sketrh, well received. BIJOU (Dan IMlraere. 

mgr.). — Ernie and Honnegar, acrobats, are good; 
MsDell and Corbley, comedy team, very good; 
CHiaries Howson, the warbler, made good; 0>wles 
Trio, acrobats, sre excellent, the little girl's work 
being sensational; Robert Taub, IlluKtratfNl songs, 
good. DAVE A. LANDAU. 



BDrOHAMTON. V. T. 

ARMORY (H. A. Bailey, mgr. Rehearsal 10).— 
Week 1: BInghamton people are getting the 
vaudeville habit by tbe crowds that patronise 
this vaudeville house. This week's bill is a 
strong one, headed by Hallen and Fuller In their 
one-act play. "Her Sunday School Boy." fine. The 
Kratnna. colored hoop rollers, very good; Rae 
and Broscbe, "A Womsn of a Few Words," good; 
Irene Lcc snd her Kandy Kids, good; Musicsl 
Avolos, xylophonistM, excellent; Dan Quinlan and 
Keller Mack in "The Travelling Dentist." big 
hit; Sineay's Dog and C!at Pantomime has some 
well trained animals. JOGGERST. 



BXrFFALO. V, T. 

SHEA'S (M. Shea, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
10).— Week 1: Zingarl Troupe, bit: Hassan Ben 
All's Toosoonin ArabH, good acrobatic work; Van 
Alstyne and Henry were funny; Welch. Mealy 
and Montrose, liked; Seymour and Hall in "Tbe 
Mix and the Mixer." popular; Genaro and Bailey, 
hit; Taylor Holmes, good monologue; Mr. and 

Mrn. Sidney Drew, added attraction. GARDEN 

(B<lward Carr, mgr. Monday rehearsal 10). — 
Plenty of comedy with Sherman and De Forest In 
an excellent farce, headllner. Mansfield and Wil- 
bur, successful: Walter Livingston, local, good 
singing; Williams and Pullman in "Riley's Wild 
Night;" Will Dockray, excellent; Noble Sisters, 
good; Marr and I^van8, good; Launa. Juggler, and 

a good one. LINN'S (Dr. Linn. mgr.). — Lea 

Tyrone, toe dancer; Harry L. Reld, baritone 

singer, and others. LYRIC (Shubert Bros., 

mgrs.). — Broke Into tbe vaudeville field for two 
weeks, opening with Wm. Morris' all-star vaude- 
ville. Including Karno's London Pantomime Ck>m- 
pany, fair; Billy Clifford, scored; Maude Lam- 
bert, good; Heuman Trio, bicyclists, in a startling 
act; Rooney and Bent did good work; Lind, good; 
Kroneman Brothers, acrobatic clowns, hit; Chalk 
Saunders took well; Delia Fox was extra feature, 
well received; Contnre and Gillette, acrobats, 
fine. Next week: Tbe Grest I-jifayette and com- 
pany. LA FAYETTE (Chas. Baggs, mgr.).— A 

lively olio snd a snappy burlesque was put t>n 
by Campbell's "Nightingales." Good singing and 
dancing by tbe chorus. Tbe Sisters Bliss, fine; 
Richy W. Craig, excellent; Yorke Comedy Four, 
comedians of merit; Moselle and Kennett, pleased; 
Groecy and Burnett, clever; Gertrude Pierce, fine. 
Next, "Broadway Gaiety Girls." DICKSON. 



CLEVELAND, OHIO, 

KEHTH'S (H. A. Daniels, mgr. Monday re- 
hearssl 11). — Week 1: Le Brnn Trio in operatic 
selections, good: Bonnie Oaylord, fair; Donalds, 
acrobats, goo<l; Darktown Trio, funny; Shungo- 
pavl, mngiclan. good; Julius Steger's "The Fifth 

Commandment." good; Gillett's dogs. fine. 

LY'RIC (C. H. Peckham, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
11) —Week 1: Mrs. Philip Henrici, mental telep- 
athist, good; Frank Mayne and company In "The 
Tipster," good; Rome Mayo and Juliet, burlesque 
minstrels, fslr; Charles De Camo has a clever 
dog; The Great Carter, illusionist, good; "Tbe 
Sexton's Dream" Is elaborate In stage setting; 
Frsncelli and I^ewis, "Tlie Bally Hoo." fair. 

Others were Jolin Walsh snd Esmerslds. 

FTAR (Drew & Oamfibell, mgrs.). —Week 1: 
"The Imperials," with Charmlon. "Tbe Perfect 

Woman," always a hit here. EMPIRE (Chas. 

W. DenxInger, mgr.).— Week 1: Al Reeves' "Big 
Beauty S'bow," enough said! 

WALTER D. HOIX:OMB. 



DAVENPORT, lA. 

FAMILY (Wellington Martin, mgr. Monday 
rehearsal Or.HO). — Clever Conkey. Juggling and 
monologist, good; Kathryn Martyu. illustrated 



■OBgs, good; Berry and Berry, mualcal, good; 
Innes and Kyan, ainglng, bit; Helen Ogden, vocal- 
ist, fair; Elliott. Belalre and Elliott, comedy 

acrobats, good. ELITE (Chaa. Berkeli, mgr. 

Monday rehearsal 11). — The Aahtons, comedy acro- 
bats, ordinary; Paul, handcuff act, hit; Elsie 
Klein, Illustrated songs, good; Steve Jennings, 
song aud dances, fair; Francla Uoyt company, 
sketch, good. LEE B. GRABBB. 



/■■•■'■•,.:■' DE8 MOINES. lA. •■.•,''■■.■■ 

EMPIRE (M. J. Karger. mgr. Monday re- 
liesrsal 11). — Bill week 7 Includes Morris Man- 
ley and Dolly Sterling in a comedy aketch, very 
good. Leeds and Le Mar give a burlesque boxing 
act which waa also well received, and llie Rlx- 
leys head the bill. Others sre Tourist Trio, good. 
Yardman amused and McCluud aud Melville closed. 

NOTE.— Lew Dockstader's Minstrels come to 

Foster's October 18. U. V. REAVER. 



:; ' • DETROIT, MICK. ^ ^ 

TEMPLE (J. H. Moore, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
10). — Week 1: Chaa. Evans and company iu "It's 
Up to You, William." are headlined and please. 
Jaa. J. Morton Is always a scream. Ray Cox. 
dialect comedienne, received several recalls. Mar- 
sella and MiUay. comedy bar performers, plessed 
Immensely. The lloldswortbs. singers and 
dancers, were fair, guigg, Mackey and Nicker- 
son, musical act. good. J. K. Murray and Clare 
Lane offered their singing sketch. Both have 
splendid voices. Tbe Kits Banxal Japanese 
Troupe closed the show with a very thrilling act. 
CRYSsfrAL (Jno. Nasb, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 11). — Maud Rockwell, prima donna, was 
given a tlatterlng reception. Tbe balance of the 
bill Includes: Geo. Armstrong with amusing imi- 
tations, went well; Tbe La Moines in a novelty 
uiuKical act, good; Tbe Llppincotts offer a singing 
and dancing turn and Anson Tscblrbart sings 
illustrated songs. The Detroit Wheelmen attended 

Monday evening's performance In a body. AVE- 

NIE (Drew A Campbell, mgrs.). — Drew A Csmp- 
bell's "Tiger Llllies" opened to big houses on 

Suudsy. GAYETY (Hsrry Hedges, mgr.).— 

The "Golden Crook" Bxtravagausa Company 
opened Sunday and proved tbe best show at this 
house so far this sessou. Two burlettas are given, 
between which has l>een ttandwlcbed sn olio in- 
cluding: Ed Morton, coon songs; The Yaltos, 
dancers, leading the big ballet spectacle "Tbe 
Four Seasons;" Cain Sisters, Stewsrt and Des- 
mond, The Wheelers, aud Dunham, Edwards and 
lieslln. LEO LESTER. 



EASTON, PA. 

ISLAND PARK (D. E. SeGuIne, mgr.).— 
Closed Sunday, Sept. 30. Will open with winter 
attractions as aoon as necessary changes are 

made. LYRIC (Renlnger A Brown, props. 

Monday rehearsal 10:30). — The attractions opening 
week 1: Webb and Connolly, mualcal comedy 
sketch; tbe Arlington Comedy Four; Doberty's 
poodles; Whittle, ventrlloqulHt; Demonio and 
Belle, comedy aud music; Tommy Hayes, trick 
tromlMue soloist. MAO. 



ELKHART. IND. 

CRYSTAL (John Ammons, gen. mgr.; Geo. W. 
Lonrle, res. mgr. Monday rehearsals 10). — Week 
1: McKee and Van, bit; Harry Newman> clever; 
Flora McGowan, exceptionally goo<l; Haley and 

Ilarty, good. ^BUCKLEN (H. G. Sommers, 

lessee: F. S. Tlmmlns, bus. mgr.).— October 2: 
Lew Dockstader, Immense hit. Crowded bouse. 
Show fine. NOTES— Klein and Klein, panto- 
mime artists, are taking a week off, due to tbe 
closing of tbe new Century Theatre at MIsbawaka, 
Ind. John L. Foster, formerly with tbe Madison 
Square Saxapbone Quartet, is spending his vaca- 
tion at home with bis father. Judge Wm. Foster. 

C. A. B. 



ERIE, PA. 

NEW MAJESTIC (Wm. A. Lang, mgr. Monday 
rehearsal 10).— Week 1: William Keough and 
company, headline, scored hesvily; Adolph Zlnk, 
extra attraction, IraperHonatlong, pleased; Three 
Meers, wire act, fair; Burke and Dempsey, come- 
dians, fair; Frank Cushman, blackface act, good; 
Musical Harts, pleased: Prof. Dodd snd dog, good; 
Even Jones, illustrated songs, good. Business 
fine. L. T. BERLINER. 



FINDLAY, 0. 

MARVIN (L. H. Cunningham, mgr.).— Week 1: 
George Austin, wire act, ordinary, too much 
bfTtcplay; Powers and Freed, musical, fair; Clans 
and Radcllffe, comedy, average; Antrim A Peters, 
vocal imltstlons. fair. GRAND (Harry H. La- 
mount, mgr.). — Miltair as a drummer, good; The 
Great Hoag, Alice Ryley and the Juggling De- 
pontas were on the bill. SAM. 



PORT WATNE. IND. 

TEMPLE OF VAI:DKV1LLE (F. E. Stonder, 
lessee and mgr. Rehearsal 10). — Olney and Cun- 
ningham were first, but far better than their 
position; Bud Farnum. ordinary musical come- 
dian; Ed and Bertha Daly, very good; Don and 
Mae Gordon, fine; Belleclair Brothers, very fine. 

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GAIETY (J. H. Holmes, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 9:.'U)).— Week 1: Hy Greenway, cometly 
Juggler and cartoonist, gowl; Surnsell and Razall, 
Mketch, good; George Mundweller. Illustrated 
songs, excellent; Grace Armend, pleased; Pero 
and Wilson, acrobats and Juggleni, went well; 
Ilayward, Conroy and Hayward In the one-act 

playlet "Marriage is Sublime," big hit. 

BIJOU (F. E. Payden. mgr.).— Half week 27: 
Little Mildred, good; Frank Malloy, good; Ga- 
votte Brothers, fair; Tbe Austins, hit; Harry 
JolKon, blackface, hit. Half week 1: Charles 
Ssnky. good; Dunbar Brothers, pleased; Billy 
Wlndom, good; The LaZars. musical, hit. 

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topllner Is a musical sketch In which Wm. Koik 
and nine girls take part. The scenery and cos- 
tuntcs are attractive and the singing and danc- 
ing are well done. The Baker Troupe of four 
men and one woman do some striking stunts on 
the bicycles. The comedy In this turn kept the 
audience In almost continual laughter. A sketch 
entlthnl "Recognition" was fair. Tlie Misses Del- 
more sing snd dance nicely and play tbe violin, 
guitar and mandolin with ability. A one-act play- 
let entitled ''The Saintly Mr. Billings," by Eiu- 
niett I)evoy and company was very laugable. The 
Intnxluctlon of a resl negro baby was sn amusing 
feature. I^na Kelfe, a dninty miss, sings Hongs 
that show training. Miss Tanner and Mr. Gilbert 
in "How to Make Love" were funny. 

WILLIAM H. KI!OI>K8. 



HAZLETON. PA. 

FAMILY (Harry Hersker, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10). — Week 1: Newhold and Curnd, 
sketch, good: Great DeBols, illuslunist. fair: 
William 8halles. illustrated songs, good; Two 
Macks. Juvenile singers, good: Mr. and Mrs. 
Brigand, little people, sketch, fair; Leo St. Ehno. 
musical act. took house. G. W. K. 



IHDIAKAPOLIS, IHD. 

GRAND OPERA HOUSE (Shsfer Zlegler, mgr.). 
— Adelaide Herrmann and Henry Lee headed the 
bill. Both created favorable impression. Caron 
and Herbert, comedy acrobats, much laughter: 
Murray K. Hill, monologist. offered some fresh 
material. A new act In these parts was the 
Apollo Quartet, presenting a neat singing sketch 
called "The Man Outside." The scene Is laid 
in a college dormitory and tbe characters are 
three students and a cab driver who comes to 
collect a bill. Lillian Tyce and Irene Jermon, 
fairly successful. Lewis atid Hennhrgs, and Hlnes 
and Remington also. EMPIRE (Chas. Zimmer- 
man, mgr.). — "The Brigadiers" gave satisfaction. 
There is nothing noteworthy about the show, but 
it is well presented and contained many pretty 
girls and bright music. Jack Symond, "the man 
of ease," scored a hit, and others to gain favor 
were the Sisters MiilUnl, I^ester and Moore, the 

Six Wehlfrleds and Sherman and Fuller. GAY- 

BTY (Edward Shayne, mgr.). — Rice it Barton's 
Extravagansa Company at this house the first half 
of the week, and "The Dainty Duchess" was 
the attraction the latter half. In the former 
show Barton and Baker carried most of the comedy 
on their shoulders and were successful in the 
burlesques, while the bits of the olio were made 
by the Two Ashtons In a club Juggling act. and 
Lemuala, Monahan and Cook In a minstrel sketch. 
"The Dainty Duchess" was well staged and the 
performances went with a dash from start to 
flnUh. LOUIS WE8LYN. 



JACKSON, mcs. 

BIJOU (Clarence E. Ixwmis, mgr.). — Week 1: 
Manek Shah, Hindu necromancer, very clever; 
The MacDonalds, aoclety aketcta, good; Tbe Fish- 



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KANSAS CITT. MO. 

OlirilEUM (Martin Beck, gen. mgr.).— One of 
the best billH ever seen at thlH theatre 1m attrac- 
tion week 90. Corney BntokM, clever character 
work In sketch "The Limit." distinct bit. Nlta 
Allen un«l company alHo hit. Kdward Clark won 
a hand, as did the "Winning Widows" wlio are 
with him. McWaters-TyHoii company, well liked; 
Ht'rniee and lUiy sing and dance; ZlHka and King, 
good; Carter and Bluford, goo<l. Bualness big. 
—-CENTURY (Jowph R. Donegan, mgr.).— - 
Much interest week 30 was centred here on 
account of Joe Gans, champion lightweight pugl- 
liHt, being with the "Bohemian Burlesquera." 
Tom Gardner appears well in the two burlettas. 

Week 7: Rellly and Woods' Big Show. 

MAJK8TI0 (B. d. Davidson, mgr.). --Week 30: 
good show, Manchester's "Night Owls." Opening. 
"A Jolly Bachelor." big hit. In the olio Belle 
Ilathaway'H trained animals pleased : F'rank Har- 
rourt, liked; Bell and Henry, go«Hl comedy acro- 
liatn. Week 7: Ruble's "Knickerbockers." 

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JESSET CITY, H. J. 
BON-TON (T. W. Dinklns, mgr.).— Week !• 
To 8. R. O. with Bonita and the "Wine, Woman 
and Song" comi>any, opening burlesque entitled 
••Going into Vaudeville." v»'ry good and well 
received. In olio: Charles Raymond and Nettie 
Clayton In a well dressed, neatly executed sketch; 
Alex Carr and company in "The End of the 
World." a la Dave Warfleld; Fern. Hcam, Liebert 
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE (W. Stewart, mgr.).— 
Sept. 28 29: LInd. beadliner, did not appear, owing 
to delay in passing customs; Hardy, Juggler, clever 
and amusing; Francelli and Jjewis. good; Miles 
and Raymond, mimicry bit, rest fair; Georgina 
Clark, Scotch ballads, fair; Ed Gray, monologue, 

goo4l; Heuman Trio, cyclists, best ever. NOTE. 

— Renovating of local house of Bennett's The- 
atrical Enterprises Co. l>eing rushed for opening 
Oct. 8. Promises to be one of the finest vaude- 
ville theatres In Canada. 

FRED D. HUESTON. 



LOUISVILLE, KY. 

HOPKINS' (W. M. Riechraan. mgr.).— Week 
."^0: The Empire City Quartet, beadliner. Never 
falls to please. Trovollo, ventriloquist, has novel- 
ty figures, clevtr; Hanson and Nelson, "sister 
act." good; Aujrusta Glose, fair: Rone and Ellis, 
comedy Itnrrcl Jumping; Joe Garza, gottd; Max- 
uilllian, musician, clever. 

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LYNN. MASS. 

AUDITORIUM (Harry Katzcs. mgr. Monday 
reliearsnl 10) — Herald Square Quartet won first 
[tlace with the audien<^e; George K. Fortescue 
and his "Six Little Wives," acored moderately; 
Miuk and Elliott in "The New Minister," scnre<l 
heavily. Cooke and Clinton, women abarpsbooters, 
ffkod; Harry TTiompson, monologue, average; 
Madge Fox, comedienne, g(Kxl; Arlington and Hel- 
ston, singers and dancers, fair. 

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MARION, IND. 

CRYSTAL (J. H. Ammons, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10).— Week 23: Fairy Plumb, songs and 
dances, clever; I/eon and Adeline, comedy Jug- 
glers, very grMxl; Tlndley and Bell, Impersonations, 
fair; Ruth Smith, Illustrated songs, complete bill. 
GRAND (Harry Sommers. lessee. Monday re- 
hearsal 10). — liena Davenport, cometist, bit; 
Miss Davenport is one of the few lady cometists 
who can play with expression. Al Coleman, come- 



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MILWAUKEE, WIS. 

STAR (Frank Tr..ttman, uigr.).— Week 2: "The 
Keut<u-ky BelUa" give an :iuiiisliig show. A good 
olio, Includin;;: Young Huffnio, a niarksniaii, very 
goo4l; Andy M(-l>!an, mush-ul liistrunicntH, fair; 
Century Come<ly Four, g<H>(|; Ut'«Ml anil (SlllMTt. 
ph'HHlng. The two l»urlesqii«>H. ".Society" and 
"Uuncurd," very amusing. Jack U«'l«l, who wrote 
Iwth, is chief comediar.. The Wlura Sisters give 
a clover act of Hungarian singing and g.vitMV . 
dancing.-— CRYSTAL (F. Winter, mgr.). -Kx- 
fellotit show. Am* ta In mirror dance is beadliner, 
very fine; Herbert and Willing, Itlackface come- 
dians, excellent; Clay RoMnHon and Maud Odell 
in sketch, good; Robertson's Famous Monk and 
Canine Chinks, fair; Illustrated songs and Crystal- 
graph pictures goo<l. li. H. RENDER. 

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 

ORPHEIM (Martin Reek, gen. mgr. Sunday 
rehearsal 10:.tO).— Dr. C. H. Clarke and Hertha 
Clarke bead the bill in "UIoIr> of Death." Act 
better dressed and done than Ity the Stones last 
season. C<dlins and Hart, burlesque strong men, 
great hit; tieorgia (iardner and Joseph Maddern 
in "Too Matiy Darlings," sketch not up to stand- 
ard; Basque Quartet, oiK'ratIc selections, g«MHl; 
Wilson Brothers, singers and comedians, repeat hit 
<^f Wilson Trio last season; Relff Brothers, sing- 
ing and dancing act, handicapped by .lules Iteiff's 
missing voice, due to Frisro climate. Musical 
Forrests open in good banj«> and .xyloplxuie work. 

CHAIMN. 

MONTREAL, CAN. 

THEATRE ROYAL (H. C. Egerton. mgr. Mon- 
day rehearsal 10). — Week 1: Sam Devere's com- 
pany In the smartest set here this seasim. Andy 
Lewis is great. The olio is good. All acts go 
big. Fair business. AL M. PRENTISS. 

MUNCIE, IND. 

STAR (Ray Andrews, mgr.). -Week 1: Tioo 
and Sulky in novelty l>oxlng act, fair; I>aura 
.Nines, the nii;littngale whistler, very g«KMl; Harry 
Bartlett and Zetha C<dlins in their novelty comedy 
act received applause; Frank Gray. Illustrated 
songs, good; St. Amo and Croumer. hand and head 
balancers, very good. GEO. FIFER. 



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t«K»k well; Fields and Wooley. the fnnny talk- 
twisters, ereated laughter, as did Bailey and 
Austin, who are as g<Kxl a team of eccentrics as 
have pla.ved the house In some time; Charlotte 
Ravenscroft pleased with violin and vocal stdec- 

tions. WAU)MANN'S OPKRA IIOU.SK (W. S. 

Clark, mgr.).— Week 1: '"lYans-Atlantlcs." A 
rattling gtMxl show. The olio is <iever. Next: 
"Runaway Girls." NOTKS.-^-EIcctrlc and Hill- 
side Parks, with the "Newark" and "Mont- 
gomery" rinks, are in full blast. Several large 
race nie«'ts and carnivals will |><> held during the 
season.- -Brady and (irossman have changed the 
"Car" on Market street Into a continuous house 
of the ten-cent order. Business has been very 
g»KMl since. JOE O'BRYAN. 



NEWARK, N. J. 

PROCTOR'S (R. C. Stewart, mgr. Monday 
rehearsal 9). — Zara and Stetson open and repeat 
former success; Barry and Halvers have a laugh- 
getting sketch; Jacobs' animals, go«Ml; White and 
Stuart in "Paris" are liked; "Immensaphone" 



NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 

IIArnAWAY'S (T. B. Baylies, mgr.).— Show 
well re<elved this week. Mile, de .Sarema's 
tnilncd aniniiil act. good; Foy and Clark in "Tlie 
Motlern Jonah," amusing spectcular skit; Will 
An-hle. midget monidogist, entertaining: Gold- 
smith and HofM>e. comedy instrumentalists, a bit; 
.Mabel R«miand. im;»ers<Hiator; Zinelte and Bou- 
telle, o'H»ralle comedy, fair; Pongo and l.ieo. aver- 
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LEOPOLD FUENKENSTEIN 

144 B. 86rrH ST.. NBW YORK CITT. 

CHAS. E. HART 

170^ W. 89TH ST., NBW YORK CITY^ 

FBED R. HOEF 

**BU8TBR BROWN" OO. 



HUGO O. NARKS 

"TBB BOLLIOKINO GIRL" 00._ 



_K. WEIXELDAUN 

"lAmM JACK BOENIB" 00. 



UODEVILLE HEADUNEIIS 
^ 600D STAIDHD ACTS 

If jxm haTt aa odd open woek yo« waat to all at 

abort notice write to W. L. DOOXiTADSR, 

Oarrlck llieatrc, Wilmington, DeL 

Can cloae Satordaj night and make any elty eaat 

of Chicago to open Monday alglit. 

IF YOU WANT A NOVEL ACT SEE 

Herbert Bert LeDiioD 

THE OREAT IMPERSONATOR OF STAGE 
CEUE.BRITIES 
At Tony PASTOR'S Theatre (next) WEEK of 
OCTOBER 8TH. 
This season impersonating JAMES A. HERNE 
in "Shore Aores" (SENTIMENT); JUNIE Mc- 
CREE in "The Dope Fiend" (CHARACTER); 
JIMMIE RUSSELL in "The Female DeteotiToa," 
and BILLY VAN. "The Minatrel Man" (COMEDY), 
MAKING UP (face and costume) FOR ALL CHAR- 
ACTERS. 

IMMEDIATE AND LATER TIME OPEN. 

OPEN IN TWO. CLOSE IN ONE. 

ADDRESS 884 EAST 80tb ST.. NEW YORK CITY. 

HA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA MA 

stllRKSLWriCH; 

A AMERICAS FOREMOST M0N0LOOUI8T. A 
§§ "I Can't Help Being Original; It Was §§ 
J^ / Bom in Me." A 

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sion and feats of maglo, big hit; Milt Wood, ex- 
pert dancer, scored heavily; Jack Uardener. mus- 
iriil monologue, well received; Estelle Wordette 
and company, well received; Faust Family, acro- 
bats, liked; Werden and UladdlMh. very good; 
Jamea Francis Sullivan and company, "crailent 
act in vaudeville." well named; Chris Smith and 
the Two Johnsons, musical act, fair. 

FITZGERALD. 



Bryant takes well; Mabel Sylva, very good; Ken- 
uedy and James, good act; Morris and Ulalr, good. 

. ■.: NICK. - 



PAWTUCKET, R. I. 

NBW I'AWTUCKET (J. W. Capron, mgr.).— 
Week 1: Morris and Bryant's Big Minstrels, 
lite first part goo<l. Olio: La Belle. Illustrated 
songs, good; De Chantel Sisters sing well; Tom 



POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. 

FAMILY (E. B. Sweet, res. mgr. Monday 
rehearsal 10:30).— Baby Owen Is the feature act 
and while the new sketch is a trifle long he shows 
wonderful versatility for a child. Orace White- 
house has a fine voice and Hcored: The Pelots, 
comedy jugglers, left the audience wanting more; 
Delmore and Darrel, finished act, finely coHtumed; 
Williams and Derujo<ly, dancer*, repeated en- 
cores; Ver Valin and Robinson, musical, good- 

W. C. MATTKBN. 



Whm answering mdvmiitementt kindly tneniion Variety. 



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JUST LANDED 



"THE [\m mmm 



J9 



WILL 



LESTER and ACKER 



CHAS. H. 



-U NEXT WEEK, PROCTOR'S, TROY. 

Personal Direction EDGAR ALLEIV 



ERS & KELLER 



Telephone 
4616 MADISON SQUARE. 



Cable Addreu 
OntARDUS, NEW YORK. 



ROBERT D. GIRARD 



AGENT FOR 



AMERICAN AND F0REI6N VAUDEVILLE NOVELTIES, 

ROOM 719, BRO^^NING BUILDING. 
1265 BROADMTAY, N£^^ YORK CITY. 

AND 

AMERICAN RCFRCSCNTATIVC FOR 

SYDNEY M. HYMAN.Lt* 

29 I^aicestar ScfUAre, MT. C.» I^ondon. England. 

empire: theatre:. Johannesburg. 

tivoll theatre. cape to^n, 

in SOUTH AFRICA. 

Rpfll Fsfflfp, Long Island 

» 

_ Moriches, L. I. 109 Acre Farm. 



1-2 Mile from Depot. 

On the Merrick Road, near 2 Beautiful Lakes and River. 

$30 ACRE 

Other Farms, Houses and Lots on Long Island. 

HUGO MORRIS or PATSY MORRISON 

1 440 Broadway, N. Y. Lynbrook, L. I. 



WIGS 



Theatrical and Street. Larreit Auortment. Stave Makeup. Anythiof to 
Order. Goods the belt. Prices richt. Send for oataloyue. Do it now. 

BUTEN (SL CO.. 903 Majestic Theatre Bldff.. 
'Phone. Central 6164. CHICAGO 

Correspondents Wanted 

Wherever there ts a Vaudeville or Burlesque Theatre or a Summer Park 



Warning to All Imitators 



and 
the 



Ruth Everett 

Original Mochanloal Doll 

I have the copyright protecting my act in Washington, Nos. 2274 and 7932. I can- 
not stop anyone using the title of ''MECHANICAL DOLL" but MY COPYRIGHT PRO- 
TECTS THE DIALOGUE AND BUSINESS OF MY ACT. 

I WILL PROCEED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW AGAINST ANY PER 
SON OR PERSONS WHO INFRINGE ON MY ACT. 

BE ORIGINAL. RUTH EVERETT. 

Watson's Buriesauers 

IMay as f(»]lowR 
OCT. 8. IMPERIAL, PROVIDENCE. R. L 

Want Cborus Ladi(>8 for the summer. I will maiiuge three tli(>atres and produce stock. Each show 
plays three houses, therefore rehearse every third week. Easy work. Address W. B. Wataoo, 
Manager, as above. 

Leatheroid Trunks 

LIGHTER THAN STCCL SO TlliCS STRONGCR THAN WOOD 

LEATHEROID MFC. CO. 



IMtBd t**r N*w Ht^.trloal CMtalofu^. 



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NEW RICHMOND HOTEL 

(EUROPEAN PLAN.) 
EUSON'S THEATRE, northeast corner Clark and Kinsie streets. ; V* 
TWO MINTTTES FROM THE CLARK STREET BRIDGE. . .-^ ; > 

CHICAGO. II^L. 

Everything new and modem. They all say it Is the best appointed theatrical 
hotel in the Windy City. Rooms single end in suites. AL. J. FLTITM, Piwp. 



LONDON "MUSIC HALL" 

Uht Great English Vaude-Ollle Taper (WnKty) 
14 LEICESTER ST.. LEICESTER SQUARE. LONDON. W.. ENG. 

American RcprcscntatiTc— Misa Ida M. Carle, Room 706, St. Tames Buildinf, where 
file of pepert cao be eeea aad a^Tertisementt will be rtceiTed 



Der ARXISX 

' Dusseldorf, Germany 

The oldest and meet inflaential Journal for Variety Artists 00 the Oootlnent. Larfcat dreolatUMi. 
Subscription, 9ft.40 p«r annnm, which IndndestlM "Artist's Almanack" and addreaa (S lines), la erery 
Ra^reseBUtlTS for Amerlea: YARIXTT, 14M Broadway, Vow Tork atgr. 



READY NOVEIVIOER 15 



Jean Bedini 



PRESENTS 



ii 



The 



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NEY 



RACINE, WIS. 

RIJOIJ (Wm. ('. Tlede. mgr. Monday and 
Thursday nhoarnals 0:.30).— Bill wrek 27 Included: 
I)e (;r«\v Trio, comedy acrobata, hit; Dolly L. 
(•rny, illustrated HongH, favorite; Harris. Ileau- 
Karde and oompaiiy. rural aketcrh, "The Country 
•lusiire," Introducing Miss lieaugarde's singing, 
k<kmI; Rllly Durant. musical Cliink. flne; Bohemian 
Trio, singers, great; The Ouyit. parlor minstrels, 
Honiething new; Bennington Brothers, acrobats. 

w»iit well. -NOTE. — Work on the new vaude- 

\ilie house going along flne. 

WM. J. MclLRATH. 



ROCHESTER. K. Y. 

COOK OPKRA HOUSE (William B. McCallum. 
mgr.).— For week 1 the bill was up to 
standard. Tlie Six Musical Cuttys are the fea- 
ture. O'Brieu and Uavel pleased, as did Sam 



Wafson In "barnyard" specialty; Merodlth Sis- 
ters, fair; Willy ZImmermaiin was liked for his 
••lever impersonations; Hawthorne and Burt dhl 
well with a singing and talking act which offers 
loom for Impruvenu'nt ; Mile. Nmlje. ncoeptable. 
Charles K. Evans, former Rorhestcr l>oy, tops the 
hill week October 10. 



SAN ANTONIO, TEX. 
M.\JKST1C (T. W. Miilialv. ni«r. Momlav re- 
hearsal 9::{0). Week Sept. .'«>: Callnhan and .Sf. 
(;eorge. sketdi artlKts, big hit; A. h. Lconliardt. 
comedy Juggling, un artist that makes tliem 
Inugli: Four Emperors of Music caught on well: 
Master Slater, the lM)y wimthT. good; Fox and 
Foxle, circus, up-to date and pleased; rhrllis Al- 
len, c<»ntr«lt!». flne. CAL. COHEN. 

BCHNECTADY. N. Y. 

MOHAWK (Joe. Weber, mgr.). -Week 1: Harry 



and Margaret Daly Vokes in "A Fatal Mistake" 
were excellent; (Jus Williams, good; Kelly and 
Ken<». comedy gymniists. well received; A. O. 
iMiiicati, ventrihxiulst, enjoyed liy all; .Nevlns an«l 
Arnold, singing and dancing duo, good; M^e. 
KiMisu and Harry Sloan, magieinns, well reci'fved; 
World's Comedy Four, an excellent quartet. 

M.MITEL. 



SCRANTON, PA. 
FAMILY (W. \\. Fly. iiikt. Moinliy relH-nrsal 
10:30). Week Sejit. 24: RIegler Ziegh r Trio, 
good: Unit and Walker, flne; The Three Hlllons 
mmle a hit; Hrytiiit and Savllie, nnisicnl mlii 
strels. the Idg thing; Tony WiiHaniM and Ftliel 

Hose in -Tl.e Masked Hull. " pleased. STAK 

(Al (5. Herrin^'fi.n. mjrr.j. Week Oct. 1: "'nie 
Tlioroughl.reds" opened here lo g(MMi bouses. 

JACK DE HAAS. 



SHAMOKIN, PA. 

FAMILY (W. D. Nellds. mgr. Monday re- 
liearRal 10. -l-.'l: Corman, West and Kennett. uiuslc- 
nl <'oniedy. very g«HMl; Welsli and Estes, comedy 
sketch, good; Bryant and Savllie, musical coiue- 
dlnns, well n'celv«»d; Knnzctfa and l/nHaue, 
comedy acrobats, fair; Blandie Bufley, singing 
and dancing, g'SMl; Dotson, clay ipudeiling, good. 
4 «: Seeker. Wilkes jind company* C. W. Wil- 
liiiitis. J«'(T mid IjiVern llealey and .Milt- Fsyclio. 

MILLER. 



TORONTO, ONT. 

SHEA'S (J Slie't. niKr. M-M.diiy rehearsal 10). 

Waller J<in< s and M.4l>el Hiie headed a good 
Idll week I MI\~N llUe Is ati ii^'ile dancer. Sam 
EtIion WM.v j^imd in Juvir!'*!.. ; Fr«Hl Ray and com- 
piiny. cle\er trnvi .i.\ . "The Crickets" was finely 



W^en antioering advertiietn^ntt kindh/ mention Varoctt. 



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REPRESENTATIVE ARTI8T6 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



HEADLINER WEEK SEPTEMBER 17 AT NORUMBECA PARK, NEAR BOSTON 

JVST ARRIVED ATTKR SEVEN YEARS TOVR Or THE 'WORLD 




COOKE 



AND 



MISS ROTHERT 



ECCENTRICS EXTRAORDINAIRE 



SPECIAL BIO FEATURE week Sept. Srd. GARRICK THEATRE, WHXINOTON. 



HEAOLIKERS week Sept. 10th. FAMILY THEATRE. 8CRAMT0N. 



Look Us Ovor Sundoy Night, Ooiobor 7, at iho Now York Thoairo 

Permanent address, EHRICH HOUSE, 229 WEST 38TH STREET, NEW YORK. 



JA8. 



THIS 18 THE ACT THAT MAKES THEM LAUGH 80 MUCH. 



MOLLIS 



TEED 



AND 



LAZELL 



IN THAT FUNNT OLD RESTAURAKT. 



CHAS. HOWARD 

STARRING IN "NEW YORK TOWN" 



DirMtlon HURTIO ft SEAMOH. 
BITTER THAV EVER. 



Abbie Carlton 

IK LITIKG ART STUDIES. 
AttUted by ten meet beautiful and shapely rirla. 

^ATCfl FOI NEIT SEASON. SOMETHING NEW AND NOVEL IN STATU A IT 

"Waahinvton Society Girla," Seaaon '06-'07. 



i*nB_' 



FRED ZOBEDIE 

The Incomparable Hand Balancer. 
Now bookinr for Yaude^Ule. AT LIBERTY DEC. 10th. 

For particular! addreai ROBERT GIRARD, 1266 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, or FRED ZOBEDIE, as 
per route with the Great Adam Forepauffh-Sellt Bros. Circus. 



JUGGLING 




OCT. 1, OLYMPIC. CHICAGO. 



OCT. 8. MAJESTIC, CHICAGO. 



THE THREE COATES 



(InclndJnir "Little Suoflower") 
IN "WANTED. AN ERRAND BOY." 



ELIZABETH 



BERENICE 



The Banks-Breazeale duo 



The Daintiest of Musical Acts 



163 W. 46tli St., N. Y. City 



. S. BENTHAM Presents 



Nan En^eton and Co 



Inoludinr MIRON LEFFINGWELL 

in 
•HOW THE WIDOW WAS WON.'* 



CHARACTER SONGS AND WHISTLING. 



HELEN TRIX 



•A TIP FROM TIPPERARY. 



Bee Pat Casey at Wm. Morris' Office. 



ONK or THC BOYS rROM MOMC 



FRANK 



FOGERTY 



'THE DUBLIN MINSTREL." 



See Pat Casey at Wm. Morris' Office. 



JULIA 



KINGSLEY 




LEWIS 



NELSON 



Presentinff farcioal sketobea, "After the Honeymoon" and "Her Unole's Nieoe." 
Address 8. K. HODGDON. St. Jamea Buildinf. 

Bransby Williams 

eURtCTEl SKTOHES FROM DICKEIS 

Direotioa H. B. MABDfELLI. 



Spaulding and Dupuee 

THE STROLLERS, 
Oue Week in Vaudeville, Oct. 8, Novelty, Brooklyn, then back to Sine Bing. 



Have Your Cetrti In \/ARIEXY 



■tSKed and provt^l n nov«'lty; the La Vinp-Clmnron 
Trio, excollent; Will KoKeru, lasso exinrt; Tom 

Muure. vooallHt. STAR (F. W, Stair, mjfr.).— 

Tho "Broftdway Onlety Girls" raiigbt them hard 
and capacity business rulrd. The r«>mi>aiiy is a 
large one, pretty maidona KHlore, funny mniedl.ins. 
costumes and ncenery flne. Johnnie WelM'r, Dick 
Brown and Fred Bulla furnlptied the oomedy. A 
feature of the olio was the gymnantlc work of 
Mario and Aldo. Mile. BnrtolesRi In a skilled 
dancer. Bulla and BraKg do a turn showing bow 
to play pool. Maud Wil«ton in songM and dancefi. 
Next: Sam Devere's Own Company. 

HARTLEY. 



rehearsal 10). — Week 1: Tom Nawn and eompuny. 
KiK)d; the Two Floods, gotMl; the Sisters Cardownle, 
good danrers; Ulldny and Fox, gtHxl: '"Dixie Sere- 
naders," took well; Stanley and Leonard, gcxwl; 
Bowers. Walters and Crooker, "The acrobatic 
Uul»es." big hit. SETAB. 



ClMiuch. acrobatic comedians, funny. Business 

p,KMl. NOTES. -^ Mayer Sunday concerts at the 

.Majestic are proving a Mg success, and goo«l 
vnndevllle acts are booked each week. The 
skating rink opened Oct. 1 for second season and 
business good. W. it. BOWMAN. 



••Tlie Star Show (Jlrls" are the attraction this 
week. A gfKxI olio and chorus make a creditable 

performance. NOTE.— .T. W. Stevens, of this 

city, will try out a new act presently. .Mr. 
Stevens will Ik* supported by the Bennett Sisters 
In a singing and danchig act with special scen- 
ery. HARLOW L. STEKLK. 



TROY, N. Y. 

PROOTORS (W. II. <;raham. mgr. Mondav 
rehearsal lOK— John Ilyams an*l I/»'ll« Mdnfyre 
In the c<miedy sketch "Two Iliuidred Wives," 
scored a hit; Walter Daniels Imitates n«ited ac 
tors in a clever manner; Joseplilne (tussman and 
her "picks," pleased; Mary I)uf>ont «iul company 
In sketch "I.#ft at the Tost." pleased: Alexis 
and S'chall, "the contortionist and the soubrette." 
were well received; Bates Musical Trl<» won aF»- 
proval; Monnn* and Wesley, coniedfians, annised; 
Four I.ond«»ns. mid air acrobats, were very ^ood. 
LYCEI'M (R. H. Keller. mg'-.).—'Tlie Wash- 
ington Soi'lety Olrls" appeared here 1 ;{. 

J. J. M. 



UTICA, N. Y. 
ORI'IiEIJM (B. L. Koneke, res. mgr. 



Monday 



WASHINGTON, D. 0. 

BEI.ASCO (Stofldard Taylor. mgr.).— The 
William .Morris "All Star" vaudeville company 
l«»r the second week, playing to goo<I houses. 
Mn;;gle Cllne, please«l; Mrs. Stuart Kubson, g<H)d 
sketch; Dome, clay modeller, creditable; Chev- 
alier Do liorls. shan>shooter. gmsl; Ward and 
Ciirraii, plenslnw: Kennedy and Wllklns. dancers, 
well re«'elve<l; Julius Tannen. Imitersonallons. fav- 
orable: Schiller 'rroui»o, acrol»ats, clever; "Daisy 

Dancers." Immense. CHASE'S (Winnlfred De- 

witt. mgr. M<inday rehearsal Kl:!."*) .— Bill U|) to 
averaue. Ned Nye and "Rollicking Olrls," with 
the Relrl Sisters, are the hit of the show. Tlie 
I.iibakans, tumblers, gisnl; Selma Brantz. Juggler, 
pli-iisin);; Claire Beasy's jHTformlng <'ats, well re- 
ceived; Iaw Hawkins, creditable; Clarice Vance. 

g«rtMl: Yoiintr and Brooks, amusing. NKW LY- 

CKl'M (Hugh Kemati. mgr.). — "The F^mplre 
Murlesqners," with Roger Imhof as the lea«llng 
rnTn»>dlnn. assisted by a gwsl company, proved 
atiiuslng,' Intrrslucing some good musical niimlK'rs 
and twenty pretty girls, 'llie olio Is also gistd. 
Indiof, Conn and Corlnne In good sketch; Four 
Musketeers, bit; Oladys St John and her Mlnne- 
bi li:i .Maidens, were well liketl; 'ITiree Alcorons. 
phased; Four I^igh Sisters, g<MNl; Martin and 



WILMINGTON, DEL. 

DOCKSTADERS OARRICK (W. L. Dockstader, 
sole prop, and mgr. Monday rehearsal 10). — 
I'rof. F. Wiseman and his dogs, goo4l; Mr. and 
Mrs. W. W. O'Brien, "The Bachelor and the 
Maid," well received; Krause and Beach, assist- 
ed by Dutch pickaninnies, sing well; H«>lcombe. 
Curtis, and company, very good act, well re- 
ceived; Alcott, Erldle and company, novelty pan- 
tomime, went well; Hathaway and Slegel, dancers. 
g«SMl; the "Boston Fadettes." headed by Caroline 
B. Nichols, the hit of the show. PITRO. 

WORCESTER, MASS. 

POI.rS (J. A. Crlddle. mgr. Monday re- 
henral 10). — Week 1: Bert Leslie and company In 
"Hogan's Visit" was very good. Ryan-Rich- 
Held company in ".Mag Haggerty's Reception" 
was a scream from start to finish. Harry I# 
Clsir. character artist, good; Dephln and r>al- 
niora In a musical act were fair; Bailey and 
Fletcher, colored comedians, were good; Adams 
and Drew In "The Bogus Chauffeur" were 
funny; Fred and Pauley In acrobatic act were 

«'\ceilent. and good pictures closed. PARK 

(Al F. Wilton, mgr. Monday rehearsal 10).— 



WINNIPEG, MAN. 

BIJOU (Nash &. Burrows, mgrs. Monday re- 
hearsal .3).— Week 24: Em I lie Walt. g<Ktd; I, a 
Bord and Ryerson, goo«l; Whltehea<l and (Jrlerxon 
Sisters, well receive<l; (Jeorge Hillman. gcxwl danc- 
ing; Alblne. headllner, takes well. DOMINION 

(I). Douglas, mgr, Mtmtlay rehearsal 10). — Week 
2.'t: Fred Wuddell. held over; Irene De Arvlile, 
fair; Davis and Macauley In "One Clirlstniiis 
Eve," g<Msl; Bell Boy Trio, good; Vernon ventrilo- 
tpilst. big aftplause; (lonxalex Brothers, Mexlcnn 

Serenaders. giKKl. NOTE. — D. Douglas will have 

a provincial vau<levllle circuit. It will embriice 
priuclpul towns of the province. 

S. J. HORTON. 



YORK, PA. 

PARI/)R (Wm. B. Pyle. mgr.).— Creo Is special 
attraction, goes big. Seeback bas struck an 
athletic town and Is making the hit of his lITc; 
Wilson and Mae. comedy duo, arc delivering n*-*' 
stuff above the tisual run: R. Thomas Mlll< r, 
Illustrated songs, bit: Reevi's and Kenny, singers 
and dancers, good; Probst Trio, comedv sket>li, 
fair. JACK DIAMOND. 



Wk€n fuiotring advertUemmit hMAy mm^ian VAimT. 



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REPRB8BNTATIVB ARTISTS 



REPRBSEINTATIVe ARTISTS 



THE 

TOY 

SOLDIER 




WALTON 



WEEK OCT. 8, KEITH, PHILA. 



Management LOUIS WESLEY 



WILLIAM ROCK 

IM VAUDEVILLE 

MftBatamtnt B«m K. 7«roaii« AmoMmrat Co.. tl7-919 8oliill«r Bulldinc, Cliio«(0. 

The Arlington Four 



(LANE. LEE, MAVNT AND R0BEET8) 



BOOKED SOLID by the Keith A Proctor Association 

WEEK OCrr. 8, PROCTOR'S, ALBANY. 

For Op«o Time Address MYERS & KELLER. 



JOHN C. 



SALLY 



RICE and COHEN 



nr VAUDEVILLE. 
! Per. address, SOS W. ISSnd St., N. Y. City. 



Mr. & Mrs. GENE HUGHES 

"^SSTt'S'/tSA!"'' "SUPPRESSING THE PRESS" 



OOMRDT PLATLRT. 
807 WEST 87TK STREET, NEW YORK OITT. 



The Most Novel Act in Vaudeville 

IRGINIA 






AND HER 



"JOHNNIES" 



*Pb«ne 7870-J RlTersldt. 



TO THE ST. ONCE BROTHERS 

Standard cycle act, that is full of merit; 

The material their own, they don't take nor inherit. 

Original feats! On the wheel they excel. 
Noteworthy is that, they do comedy as well. 
Grotesque makeup, that does not offend, 
Entirely worn by the comedy end. 

Bright, humorous monologue that sparkles with wit, 

Relative to cycling, the material does fit 

On any bill, irrespective of place. 

Speed is their motto, they'll keep up the pace. 

Compliments of Palmer & CiJbert 

"IF YOXr CAN'T BE 0000. BE CAREFUL." 

ROGER IMHOF 



Heading the Empire Show. 



Direction HEUCK ft FENNESSY. 



MLLE. 



SOUSA 



AND 



SLOAN 



HARRY 



Time filled until 1907. 



THE PRESTIDIOITATOR AND THE MAGICIKIN. 

("Watch the Scabbaffe.") 

Watch the finish, SEE THE 5 FRENCH POODLE DOGS. 

Next Week. Oct. 8, Bin^hamton, N. Y. 



XHE XOTITOS 

■ .. v European Novelty Act. Now en tour, ,, 

A. MERRY AQOLUTINATION OF MELODY AND MIRTH. 

E»w«o THE MUSICAL BRENNANS 

'ANTTARY AND FEBRUARY OPEN. 



MAUDE 

ADDRESS CARE VARIETY OR CLIPPER. 



HAVE YOUR CARD IN VARIETY 



Ellnore Sisters 



In VAUDEVILLE 



Direction GEO. HOMANS 



DARE DEVIL CASTELLANE 

AMlBted by VOI.O. 

SENSATIONAL DOUBLE "GAP OF DEATH" AND TRICK CYCLISTS. 

Eastern managers, watch for us. Permanent address care VARIETY, Chicago Office, 79 S. Clarli St. 

A Hit Unequalled at KEITH'S, Phiiadeiphia, tliis week. 

LUCYiLUCIER 

BCCB«ITRIC,CONEDV UTHE FOOL'S ERRAND." 

PLAYED PROCTOR'S 125th ST. SUNDAY NIGHT. Regards to "The Candy Kids," Smirl and Ressner, 

and all friends. "We are Proud of You." 
Lnoy and Ltirlrr liad a n*markal)ly funny 8k«'tch I'litill.tl •'I'lic Foi»rN I-Jrrand," in which the formor 
playt'd tho roW as a iucswmikit Ixiy, and his cliarncftT work \mih ho gfXKl tliat one could not fall to 
set' \u\ had closely studlfd thos«' Iittl«' fcllims from n-.il IHc Ills daiiclni^' was different from anything 
yet seen, as he seemed to have his t-ntlre bodyon hlii>re«, -The riilladelphla Kvening Item. 

CISHMAN 

The World's Famous 20th Century Minstrel 

For Open Time Address R. GRAU, Suite 9 and 10, 1358 BROADWAY 





in Vaudeville 

Management JACK LEVY, 

140 WEST 42D STREET. 

NEW YORK CITY. 



When ontvBgring adverii9tm9nt§ kindly mention Variety. 



20 



VARIETY. 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



Bowers. Walters and Croeker 



THE 3 RUBES 



f 



Week Oct. 8 — Armory Theatre, Binghamton, N. Y. 



Week Oct. 15 — Orpheum, Allentown, Pa. 



MARVELOUS BARD BROS. 

MOST WONDERrUL GYMNASTS IN THE WORLD 

Anybody o&n ileal; it t«k«i brains to oririnata. We«k Oct. 8, Orpheum. San Franoiico. 

Week Oct. 15, Orpbeum, San Franoitco. 

Booked Solid Se«K>n 1906^7 0y MYERS A KELLER, Exclusive Agents 





ENGLAND 



V^ILL SOON RETURN 



NO OPEN TIME. '' 

FIRST AMERICAN ACTOR TO PRODUCE A PROTEAN PLAY. 

Thos, Jm Keogh \ COm 



(RUTH J'RANCIS) 



J. K. BURK. 



c 



FRANK 



MURIEL 



• It 



mbs 



AND 



stone 



"THE LAST or THE TROUPE." By CHAS. HORWITZ. 
Tbe latest eucoets In TaudOTille. Our own special soenery. Mr. Coombs for tbree seasons 

OOMt LOOK US 0¥eR , . 

BARTH BROS, and 




rOMEDT GYMNASTS. 

90I0 tenor witb George Primrose. Suooess st Keith's Union Square. ^ 



JACK IRWIN 



•SHARKEY' 



OPEN FOR BURLESQUE Play all parts and strong act for olio. 

Now writing oriKlnal first part, "Two Old Pals" «n<l lnirIeK«ipp, "Tlie TwentUth Onliiry 
rirstps." (iuRmntoiMl everything new for next Reason. 




NYE 



Assisted 
by his 



w- ■-'«• ' , .••"•; 



CC 




GIRLS 



II 



BRAINS. 



ABILITY. 



COMEDY. 



ORIGINALITY. 



Sohrook ancJ Rio 

(THE TALKING CYCLIHTS) 
WILL PRESENT IN VAUDEVILLE SEASON 1907-08 AN ORIGINAL BICYCLE PLAYLET ENTITLED 

*'A CHANGC or BUSINESS" 

Carrying Full Set of Special Scenery and Two ABslatantB. * 

THIS SEASON SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTION BYRNE BROS.* "8 BELLS." 
Regards to Pirates with Rentz-Santley wlio have Stolen mir Ladder Trick. 



Alexis 



THE HAPPY PAIR 



AND 



Schall 



BOOKED SOLID ON KEITH TOUR 



LYDIA «•"> ALBINO 



EQUILIBRISTS AND GYMNASTIC ACT. 

Week Ootober 8 — Alhambra, N. Y. City. 



Chas. 




Fletcher 



AN IDEAL 

Starts Tour of tho 



IN ENGLAND 

World in November 



Address i ASHTON'S ROYAL AGENCY 

31 Henrietta St. Covent Gardens, London 



THC DANCING IVONDCRS 

BROWN I WRIGHT 



The only Singing and Dancing Act of its Kind in Vaudeville. 



ALL AGENTS. 



IDA 



SALMON ®. CHESTER 

AUSTRALIAN ENTERTADTEHB IN THEIR LONDON COSTER ACT. 



Harry Thomson 

"HIS HONOR THE MAYOR" IN VAUDEVILLE 



The man who made the title fainoiiR from 
coast to <'oaat. Have no time to run for Gov- 
rnor: too im.sy eiffntng cootraetii. 



THOSE FUNNY CYCLISTS 

Millard Bros< 

BILL and BOB 

Always Riding. 

ASK BOB MANCHESTER. 



MINNIE 



EDDIE 




Singing and Talking Act. Travesty on Virginus 
^SAM DEVERE'S OWN COMPANY SEASON 

'06-07. 

iTWlto 

THE ORIGINAL CALIFORNIA'S FAVORITE 
COMEDIENNES 

IN VAUDEVILLE. 



Nettie Vesta 



Singing Comedienne. Address care VARIETY. 



FRANK G. 



HARRY 




OctJber 8. Keith and Proctor's 125th Street. 
October 15, Keith and Proctor's 58th Street. 
Ootober 22, Keith's, Boston. 




AND 



'THE DUTCHMAN AND THE BIDDY.' 
Oct. 8, Haymarket. Chioago. 




/IDElwB PUi^VIS 




r>i 




I 



A N£\ir ACT 



wk 



Assisted 
by 



In Her Well Known Spherical Dance 



ALLTHORPE 

In Her Original Spade Dance 



Address RCICH. PLUNKKTT Ob IVKSl^CY, St. Jam«« Btiildintf. New York City 

. When aii9u>ering adv§rtitement$ kindly mention Variety. 



HARRY TSUDA 

eOUiUBRiST V 

Can be engaged In conjunction with this act. 



VARIETY 



/■•'i> 



21 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 







4ND 




Presenting ''PIERROT and PIERRETTE" 



VTeeR Oct. 7» Alvarado TKeatre* Bay City, MioAi. 



AL SHEAN— WARREN, CHAS. 



IN THKm OmOINAL TRAVISTIKS 



QUO VADIS— CAPT. KIDD 

PER ADD^ SI CHISTEII STmiT. HOUNT VIKNON. N V 



TheTHREEOLIVERS 

In a Sensational tighr Wire Act "^" Hsk IWyers & Keller 

Hal Godfrey & Co. 



P&MBfTIIfO MSZT MABOII 
III 



"THE LIAR" By Edmund Dty INO "k VERY BAD BOY" By IrtharUnb 

V ^ Two of the few eUndard iketdiei ia YanAtiwOh, 

AddrMB, •BTOvto, XoM ft fltoU Tour. 
London Af«nt, OBAXLEB B. CPOOKEAV, !• LolMttor PUen, L«too«t«r Bq., London. 

Bissell and Miller 

CHAS. TATLOB, MOK. 
NMt«it dretsed danoinr act before the public with "BALTIMORE BEAUTIES" 

October 8th, Miner'i 8th Arenue. 



WILFRED CLARKE 

Assisted by MISS THCO CARCW (gi CO. 

t Presenting His Sketches 

NO NOUE THOUBLE tLiid WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT 



'u-i 






■■.''1 



OBOROB 



THE CX>MEDT AOBOBATIO NOTELTY. 



ED. 



Mullen^LGorellL! 



nr HinfOBons peculiabitieb. 



WEEK OOT. 8. KEITH'S, MANCHESTEB, K. H. 



"LOOK OUT BELOW!" 



113dd3HS AUUVH 

I wM uot bom in Cork, neither do I um oork on my faoo, but I play a oorkinf food Irfihman «■ prlnoipnl 

comedian with the "CKEBBT BLOSSOMS." 



BOB 



THE 



MAT 



K 




IVi 





COMEDY SKETCH 

BIO SUCCESS ON WILLIAMS' CIBCUIT. 



THC BOYS THAT HAVC SCCN THC VTORLD A BIT 



Manhattan Comedy Four 



Agents— MYERS & KELLER. 



WILLIAMS j^ DAVIS 



MACK 



WALTERS and PROUTY 

^Walt«rs and Pr<»iat9r ar« rkm-v^ K«re i tHey scored H«avily and iivlll 
be iiir«lcome<l back anx tktnm^— Cincinnati Enquirer. 

CARLISE I BAKER 

THE COLOBED ARISTOCBATS. 
Planitite, Tocaliats and compooera. Playing two pianoa at one time. 



Stor Attraction 

rolies marigny, paris 
tv^ice: prolonged 

A LC MATIN— ''The Biggest American Hit in Years.'' 

0. H. HARRIS, Monoger ED. MARKUM, Press Rep. 



ELTINGE 



WORK 



AND 



COMEDY ACROBATS 



OWER 



ORPHEUM SHOW SEASON 'Oe-'OT. 



MIKE BERNARD 

Pianist at Pastor's Tlieatre 

Can aooept otker encagwrnanta. Oln¥ wwk •■peoially. Addreaa oare of Pastor*! Tkeatm. 
BUMFS. FALLS. 

Chas. and Miss Jac Ahearn 



LAUGHS 



THOSE FUNNY CYCLISTS. 
EXCLUSIVE AUKNTS— MYKIiS A KBLLKR. 



CIX)SB CALUi. 



DAVE FERGUSON 

LIGHT COMEDIAN WITH FENNESSY'S "MIES NEW YORK, JR." 
Season 1906-'07. Manaf«ment I. H. HERK. 



ELEANOR 



MAY 



wAiTMit, mtm & (0. 



HOBSE VERSUS CYCLIST 
A Loffitlmata Baoing Act 




MHO 



YUIR 



"The Girls Who Look Alike'' 

Season 190g-'07, Fennessy's "Miss New York, Jr." Management I, H. HERK. 

BESSIE VALDARE'S 

JROUP^ OF CYCLISTS AND UNICYCLISTS 

■MABTUT DBE88EP AND MOST REFDCED BICYCLE ACT BEFORE THE PUBLTC 
This week, Maryland Theatr'?, Baltimore. IDA CARLE, REPRESENTATIVE. 

ZING ARr TROUPE 



Pratantad bj ALEXANDER BKVAK. 



Dtreotion of GEORGE HOMANS. 



When antwerinff adveriitementt kindly mention Yaboety. 



22 



VARIETY 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



REPRBSEINTATIVB ARTISTS 



ARTHUR PRINCE «» 




D&AMJLTIO lOFSAVO. 



Sarah Louise Cogswell 

TEMUAXEMn ASmMMU, f W. MTM IT.. VEW TOEK PITT. 

BBRT •/%BBI^ 

MARION AND DEANE 

Dookc4 Solid Until rckruary llth on the Bl« Eastern and Western Vaudeville Association 
-=^— **ltOUMHWM JMt ORIGINAL ANSWER'* (Copyrlflhti. That*a tke Aaawerl 

Some ol the Houses We ttave Jiiat Played 



KEITH'S, BOSTON— Week July 30th. KEITH'S', PITTSBURG— Week AngMt 27th. 

KBITH'9 PHILADELPHIA— Week AaytiRt 13th. SHEA'S GARDEN. BUFFALO— Week September 8d. 
KEITH'S, CLEVELAND, O.— Week SeptemlKr 10th, 

TONY PASTOR'S, NEW YORK— Week September 17tb. 

KEITH'S UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK— Week September 24th. 

With 22 Week! to Follow! Doing Our Own Refined Comedy! 

Comedy Dlalogu? Songs, "I'hat'a the Answer" and "It's Up to You." 

Copyright Clans C. XXC, No. 67.695, Library of Congress. 

HAVE YOU HEARD THE BIO SCREAM FINISH. 

LIMITED ENOAGEMENT DT YAXTDEYILLE. 



IM 



U B Y 



By permission of Messrs. FIELDS and SHTIBEBT. 



LEWIS AND GREEN 



OSCAR 

8VEVSKAR KOM OCH 8KRATTA. 



SAN 

EN ROUTE "THE NEW LONDON OAIETT 0IBL8.' 



A DAINTY MUSICAL ARTISTE. 



BERTHA MOSS'RUSSELL 



T«l. tSSe L— BMlford. 



Can Work in One. 



Par. address, 59 Hanoook St., Brooklyn. 



FKATVRCD IRTITH '^ BON TONS** 

FRANCES CLARE 



SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, 8-10. 



INDIANAPOLIS, 11-lS. 



Earle and Barlletl 



"faS'VATtrUL f!^^ AND THE SINOINO COMEDIENNE. 



Week Oct. 8, Jersey City, 



IDA CARLE, ReprsMntstiTi 



OM 



THE GREAT 





I 




R 



WorU^s QrmaiBst Marksman 



AGENTS — ^WX. MORRIS. HUGO KOKSH. FAT OAIET, LOVII PINOUl. 



B. S. 



RUTH B. 




AND 



I 




Vaudeville's Leading Entertainers with the Banjo. 



Per. address, 68 Washington St., MiddletowB, Oou 



**LITTI«C BOT AND I^ITTI^C G I R I« 



• • 



HiE GARDNER AND REVERE ^ 



• • 



Permanent addresR» care Variety 



THC BKLI^ BOY AND THC SOVBRCTTC 



1 1 



DIFFERENT FROIM OTHERS 

Clemenso Bros. 

ISO\/ELTV ynUSICAU COiVlED'V 

ACROBATIC CLOWNS. TIME OF ACT, la MINUTES. Address Care VARIETT. 

JORDAN li HARVEY 



TO ENGLAND ON THE CUNARD LINE. 

MYSTERIOUS 



Howard Brothers 

The World's acknowledged thought transmission and ' telepathic wonders. Week October 1, 
Proctor's 23rd Street. Week October 8th, Proctor's Albany. 

BOOKED SOLID UNTIL APRIL. 



CKIcago Offices 79 S. ClarK Stre« 

BIG SUCCESS. 

Howard g Linder 

, IN THEIR NEW GERMAN COMEDY SKETCH 
"AS MY rATHCR XJSCD SAY" 

Exclusive Agent, AL SUTHERLAND, St. James Building. 

HINES »D REMINGTOI 

IN THEIR LATEST SATIRE, 

"THE fVlAINICURE GIRL" 

Rlnes and Remington at Keith's Theatre In their new skit, "The Manicure Girl." were re 
funny and kept the houiie in an aproar. Both are artists and well acted tbelr parts. — Philadelphia Itei 



ECCENTRIC COMEDDkN. 



Chris Kichards 

BIGGEST SUCCESS OF ANY ENGLISH COMEDIAN IN AMERICA. 



MARVELLOUS 



Ferrell Brothers 



CYCLISTS U 
TRAORDINAR' 



IN THEIR LATEST SCREAMING CREATION 



"FLIPS and FLOPS" 

Original, Sensational, Special Scenery Safe Blowers, Highwaymen, etc. LooK us ove 



J MO. A, WEST 



^*THE /V\USIC/\L BRO\A/INlE 

BOOKED SOLID JUNE 16. •07. AND THEN SOME MORE 
AND NO LAY OFFS OR 1-2 SAI^ARIES 



^ 



When answering advertUmnmiti kindUff mention Vabiktt. 



VARIBTY 



n 



R&PRE8EMTATIVE ARTIST® 



REPRESEINTATIVD ARTIST® 



H4RRY FOX 

Twin 

A^ Dainty Comedy Novelty Upstart in **One**. 

BURLESQUERS. (Regards 




(The Entertainer) AND THE 

IHELNOTTE 

One>f the Features with the DREAMLAND 
to San Francisco Friends) 

Address per route or care VARIETY, • CHICAGO OFFICE, 79 S. CLARK ST. 



LOUISE DACRE 

AHD SE& "OAVDT BOT." 
Tbla title Is not a slaDS expresaloo, but correctly describes part tskeo by the boy. Most "boy" 
acts depend chiefly for their success on Jurenile portion. Miss Dscre's set Is s norelty in 
TsadeTllle and does not depend on sach methods. She clslms her specialty to be refloed, orlginsl snd 
entirely different in erery respect from sll other "boy " sets. 

"- Booiced soUd direction of E. F. CAKBUTHTSS, ■ 

Majsstio Theatre Boildias, Cbioaso. Hi. ~~ — 



JUST TO BNCOUBAOB THB LADOHINQ HABIT. 



VATALZB 



HAWLEY and OLCOTT 

PRB8BNTINQ MB. HAWLBT'8 OOMBDT, "JUST MABBIBD A WEBK.'* 
A dean, homelike playlet; a sure Usfh getter. ALL AGENTS. 



'GEE! IT'S HABD TO BE OOODl" 




MICKEY 

JOHN T. KELLY I CO. 



23d YEAR 



Y^OOOS 



^%V^ A' 23d YEA 



PAT RBILLYa Wlanciflrer 



DT A VEW OOKEDT BEIT. 



Direction JACK LEVY 



AXBBICA'l YAMOUB OKABAOTEB OOMEDZAV. 



Ghas. Robinson 



featani witk OsmpbeU * Drew's "OOLOMIAL BELLES" OOMPAHT. 

rtftaea miBatee ef solid laacktw la "saa" dslaff kis soesl specialty. "The Tramp aad Sebfew." 



BBNB 



BEET 



THE VEDMARS 



VOVELTT COMEDT ACB0BAT8 



CLOBOrO OLIO WITK "MISS HEW TOBX. JB." 
Manairement I. H. HBBK 



KID H. 



I^VI^V 



THOMAS andPAYNE 

Ci>lor«i lEp«rt Woo4mi ShoB and loUtr SKaU Dancers 

Week Oct. 8, Orpkenm. Vtioa. Week Oot. 16, Orpkeum, Allentown. 

ALBERT SUTHERLAND. St. James BoUding. N. Y. 

GEORGIA CUNNINGHAM 



CHARLES ORRIN COWLES 

■■■■■■■■'■^■-■■"■■" AND .., 

DOROTHY ALDEN 

Presenting the Military Comedy Slietcii by HOWARD P. TAYLOR' 

"JONATHAN'S COURTSHIP" 
"A ONE-HORSE TOWN" 

A SATIRICAL COMEDY SKETCH 
Botli Acts Copyrigiited and Euliy Protected ^ 

Address W. b. SHOW ALTER, ISO Nassau Street, New York City 

"THE MAE WITH TKB rVBVT SLIDE." 

Chas. J. Burkhardf 



19M>'«7. 



'MISS VEW TOBE. JB." 



WM. H. 



sat I. 



DAISY 



Maxwell I Dudley 

FEB. ADDBEBS. 106 W. 96th ST. ALL FIB8T CLASS AGENTS. 

•TOR S^VECT CHARITY" 

BT WILL 0BES8T. 



THE "omrvnro" little soubbette avd "cnnnmiG" little davobb. 

rEATTFBED WITH THE "OgBEIEG" LITTLE SHOW, WOODHPLL'S "HIGH BOIXEBS. 



t$ 




Bert Howard &Leona Bland 

PBBSENTING 

"THE STAGE MANAGER" 

Another new one in preparation. 

MAJESTIC MUSICAL FOUR 



GERTIE REYNOLDS 



AND HEB 



II 



TWIRLIE GIRLIES" 



Direction N. TBEFFTTBT 



A^ent WILLIAM MOBBIS 




HICKMAN BROS; 

A new aot next season witk ipeoial soenery and efTeots. 

DlreoticQ M. 8. BENTHAM. ^^ ' ^ ^^\H ; fl • f r ' ' 

Collins, Henry, Terrlll and Simon 



HIGH CLASS 
COMEDY MUSICAL OFFERING 



MB. ALBEBT SVTHSBLAED, BepresentatiTe, St. James Bide., V. T. 



V^^^l^ ^O^AOA^M^d^tf 



Madly wtmtion V 



rAttimtt 



RBPR&8&INT/1TIVE ARTIST8 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTI6T8 




A 



N 



D 




<-. ■- •. * 



TM» ENOUSH VENTRIL OQVIST 



Oct. Cl» HmymarRet, CHIcago 



ToYiring Americ 




"A Night In an English Muslo Hall" 



KAVAOSB. MUr, 



..-*•. 



Have already played in all the principal Vaudeville Theatres East and 

West ■:./..■•.-•.•. 
The orig^al and legitimate production, recognized by fair-minded 

managers and preaSi 

Week Oct. 8, Olympic, Cinciimaa AGKNTS^ WM. MORfilS AITD H. B. MARINSLLL 

METROPOLITAN 

OPERA TRIO 



BARBER -RITCHIE TRIO 



Tim* all flll«d until our rtturn to AnpiM TkMtra, London. Wook Oot 8, Majootio. Brio, Pa. 

BoMi. nuikoM a Wertiy. mmm MM. St. Jaaos Modu lilt 



HB ORI OI Ff A T OR 



tflis, ANNA PLUM. Priaa Doaaa 



la 



Sl^sri TOITOMCO and BUSNI 



of "U TMfatom" aM "flawt" trtoa. Icraflry aad ooatviM 



Bona fldo 



Grand Opera Sinseri who hoTO suoff In Grand Opera. Week Oct. 8, Trent Theatre. Trenton, N. J. 
mA CMIBLB. SaitiiM BufiiMtaMuL SI. iamm SnJldlM. 



CL 



la Vtaiaa 
Vata Jtauurr h IMV. 
Attm Tkat AA 



THB nVBATIOVM. OTOLIVa 

8UR 

REICI. PLUIRETT t WESLEY. 



LAURA 





gT. J . 
BTJXLDnrO, 
VSWTOaK. 



Ferguson and Mack 

Booked 10114 until Decembor. Dirdction JACK LEVY. 

RYAN4aCHFIELD COMPANY 

'" "Mag Haggerty's Reception" 



DmsoTioir WM. mobbxs. 



BY WILL M. CBBSiT. 

•TABTZVO TOUm 1M7.4M DnUBOTIOM P. O. WnXZAMS. 



SECOND SEASON 



Lynotte Sisters 



'WASHnrOTON 80CIXTT OIELa" 
SEASON '06-'07. 



DIBSOTXOH 
W. B. WATSON. 



HAVE YOUR CARD IIN VARIETY 




AND 




Hayo retnniad to thoir old field, VAUDEVILLX. 



COMEDIANS V^HO CAN SING 



lUaAsemeBt JAKE STXSKAJU). 



MLLE. LUBA DE 





MA 



Greatest Comedy Animal 
Act in Vaudeville 



PLATING ONLY THE BBM! TIME. 



Woak Oot. •— Sammentoin'a, Now York. 



CAPT. F. C. ROSSKOFF, Manager 



HESB I AM AGAIN 
WITH SOMETKINO NEW. 



BILLY HART 



THE HUMAN 
VENTRILOQUIST FIGURE. 



asalsted by 

MISS ANNA YALE AND MARIE JAN8EN. 

In a NoTel Oomedy Act, Giving a Real Burlesque Imitation on Ventriloquism. 

Mj own idea. I am the first; the originator; so remember that. 

This season "Yankee Doodle Girls" Co. Pirates, don"! trespass. Truly yours. 

BILLY lIART. 



u 



BERZAC 

VI/OODIA/ARD*® SEALS 



Proprietor mnti ^flmnrngcmr • 



Cl^ir*F*B BBRJSA' 



Kenney and tiollis 

ProcrasaiTo Oemadiaaa, in a N«w Aot ^ GEORGE QUIGLEY 

KBITH CJIRCUIT NOW 

Minerva Vano 



THE ORIGINAL QVEBN OF HANDCUFFS EN ROUTE "GREATER NEW YORK STARS.' 



Larry Smith, Mamie Cliampion, Sam J. Adams s Comp'y 

IN "THE IVIAOIO BOOT" 



POI^rS. HARXrORD. WEEK OCT. 15 



99 



Maaatf«m«nt I^OUIS MTESI^EY 



^ 



Wkm s w igT i wf m4»trt i§ t mmU kindly mmtion VABDrrr. 



VARIBTY 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTI«T« 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



» 



VAUDEVILLE 8 MOST BEAUTIFUL r^OVELTY 



GREGSON'S EUROPEAN SENSATION 



...DAINTY. 



I 




Ma 




ZMiH i 






AND 



\.TV«^ 



CHARLES GREGSON 



aJ jP. ^^Les Chef-d'oeuvre8 



" SPECTACULAR AERIAL 
^' ILLUSIONISTS 

^^ THE SUPREME NOVrLTY OF THE SEASON 



HARRY YOKES 



Late of 
Ward and Vokos 



^ ' a, 



AMD 




DALY VOKES 




* ■ . •■ . •! 



Management JACK LEVY, 140 West 42d Street, NEW YORK CITY 



THE GREATEST ACT IN YAODEVILLE 



Alex Car r 

AMD COMPANY 

IN 

"The End of the World" 



BY 



MMROM HOFFMAM 

Eltri Fiituri witk "WINE, WOMAN AND SONS" BO., Siiui 1108-7. 



J I IVI IVI I 



VJ CAS 



BOOKED SOLID. 



•THE BOY WITH THH DIALBOTB." 

Addr«ta Care VARIETY, Cbieaco Offlec, 79 8. Clark Bt. 



OLOsnro the olio with the remtz-iavtlxy go. , * . 

Cycling Zanoras 

KnocRabout Comedx Crclists 

Ooodrioh Tirea ui«d exoluaively on all of onr bioyolea. 



VAT 



BUST 



NIXON and EATON 

TWO MEM AND A DRXTM IV A WHIBL OF T&AYESTY 

With Famoua Rent«-Santloy Co. 

Csrl-tort IN/laoy, 
IN/laude Hall & Co. 



PKEBEVTIVO "THE M AOPIE AVD THE JAY." 

BY EDW. WERTZE L. 

WEEK OCT. 8, SHEA'S, BITFFALO. 



IN/lildred V^'^'^'^^r 

Dainty Binrin* and Danoinr Oomodianna. with "CEVTVRY 0IRL8." 



— TREMENDOUS SUCCESS-^ 

CAMERON AND FLANAGAN 



I 



CC 



ON 



nd 




99 



Five minutes in "one," 14 minutes in the dressinc room. The act is noreil, original and OUR OWN. ANY ONE CAUGHT INFRINGING on any of our rights WILL NOT 

HAVE TO GO TO LAW BUT TO THE HOSPITAL. 




THE ONLY HEADIvINER 
THAT HAS NEVER 
FAILED TO MAKE GOOD 



p. H. ^MTEILER, Manager. 26 Ros* Aven«i«, BUrrALO, N.^Y. 



^ 



VAKIBTT 



REPRESEINTATIVE ARTISTS 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



THE YEVTBILOQVIST WITM A PXODUOTIOV. 

EdT. Reynard 

Aad His Famous Medtanioal Tigurm. 
Ea Boat* Oroat Orphoum Road Show. 

IMrMtioa MABTXV BSOK. 



Gartelle Bros. 

SKATORIALIS/Vi 

We«k Oct. 8, Majettlo, ChicMTO. 

DAVE LEWIS 

Btp w MBtad k7 ICTSBI * SXLLXB. tl W«»l Slat 



'Swolli from tho Paoiflo" 



Kelly iuiil Yiolette 

VLTBA FASHION PLATES 
OOTOBEB 8TK. BPRIKOFIELD. MASS. '. 

"THE MAID OF ALL WOBK" 

NIss Ndrylnnil Tyson 

Bb rovta with / 

Jaoob'i and 7ormoB'i 
"OBEATEB VBW TOBK STABS.** 

TOSSING 
lAUSTlNS 

BOOKED SOLID TILL JAWABT, 1M7. 
Week Oot. 8, Prootor'i 186th St.. V. T. City. 

MB. AND MBS. 

HARRY THORNE 

AND CO. 

FARCEURS 

still Lirinc Happily in the Same Old Flat. 



THE 



PADDY 



BESSIE 



m i Mm 



COMEDY SINOINO AND DANCING. 
Addretg care VABIETY. 



FRED 



LILLIAN 



RUSSELL AND HELD 

SINOEBS AND DANCERS. 
Beitt Dreiied Act in Vaudeville. Booked Solid. 

Hacker -Lester 

Trio 



(COMEDY CYCLISTS. 



Booked Solid. 



MAE HILLIARD 

COMEDIENNE. 
Per. Addreu, Care VABIETY. 

LILLIAN SHAW 

Vonal Dialect Comedienne. Time all filial. 

Week Oot. 1— Hyde ft Behman, Brooklyn. 



THE GEMS 

CONDENSED MUSICAL OOMSDT IV 18 MUiUTM 

Direction WALLACE KENNEDY. 
FLAYDTO THB KEITH OIBOUIT. 



DOnie SOME FALLS. 




M 



OEBMAN COMEDIAN 
with ''BALTIMOBE BEAUTIES" 

CHAS. TAYLOB. Ugr. 



CHICK 

THE UNICYCLE COMIQUE 
Introdnoinff the Smallest Bider in tha Wofld 





IN "THE LIYnro PUMPKIN" 
Booked solid hy Western VaudeTille 

mm 



AMEBICA'S PBEMIEB HOOP BOLLEBS 
TIME ALL FILLED 



CHAS. ■. 



ULLT m. 



Colby-May 

The Ventriloqnist and The Daociof Doll 

Playins R«tuni Datss Evarywtaar* 

P«r. ▲««. 10 W»lllBftoi at., atrua w. cu 

LMld*B. ■ttflABa. 

CluM (TWO) AUce 

Shrodes 



IVORKING 



KAIfS 






ECCENTRIC ACROBATS ON THE ORPHEUM 

CIRCUIT. 

THOSE FUNNY FELLOWS 

BELL&nElY 

En route, "Mancbestep NIgbt 
Owls." ReproKented by H. B. 
MarlnelU. 

Week Oot. 8, Gaiety, St. Louis. 
THE COMEDY MULE ACT 

m CUKE, VEITWORTN 
ud PETE 

October 1st, Star Theatre, Brooklyn. Extra 
feature, October 8th, Gaiety, Brooklyn. 

BURTON and RANKIN 



NoTelty MiliUry Act. 
Address WM. M0BBI8. 



Have your card in Varielv 



Billie Ritchie 

and his ten English Pantomimlats, Starring with 
Ous HUl's "Around the Clook." 



BILLIE REEVES 



LOUIS 




SINON/OARDNER 

Presenting Miss Gardner's lataat v«niMi of 
"The Hew Coaohman.'* 

Booked solid by MYEBS 4 KW.LWI. 



s i Wooley 



OEKMAH OOMEDZAJra 
in "A Trip in an Air Ship." 



Miss Baffin's 

MONKEYS 

Address VABIETY. 

TEXARKANA' 
and W ALB Y 



BPBIGHTLY SOUBBETTES 
Who are expert danoers. 



Singing and diaraoter Comedienne. ,. 
Big Suooess with "PABIBIAN BELLES" CO. 

M\ NllllAII 

THE OBEAT VIOLINIST, 
Aooompanied on Piano by his Sister. 

Booked SoUd Season 1908-1907. 

HENBY PINCU8, Manager. 
St. James Bldg.. New York City. 

PATTY-FRANK 
TROUPE 

AOBOBATIO WONDEBS. 
New York Hippodrome. 

THE GAGNOUX 

ORIGINAL JUGGLERS AND EQUILIBBISTB. 
Week Oot. 8, Keith's, Proridenoe. 

Three 

Sensational 

Zoellers 

WHIBLWIND GYMNASTS. 



Mm 




and^Company 

TIME ALL FILLED. 



The Leahy Bros. 



BOMAM BDre ARTISTS. 



As "BILL SYKES" 




in Fred Ksrno's "A Night In the London Slams"; 
slao the origins! "drank" In "A Night at an 
English Music HaU." 
Week Oot. 8, Colonial Theatra, N. Y. City. 

Sleed's 



MYBTEBIOUa HOTEL* 
Agent MABIVELLL 



JUST BY NYSELF 



I 



(That Busy Aorobat.) 
BYBNE BBOS. "8" BELLS. 



Farrell-Taylor Trio 



WILDER 



Maurshall 
P. 



Per. Address. Tha Florham, 8M W. tTtk at, 
Vew York Oity. 




and Conpaay 
^ A Honeymoon In the Calakilla ** 

Week Oot. 8, Empire, Hoboken. 

Neva Aymar 

Featured with Med Waykvm'a 
"BAIN'DEABS" 



Orpheum Show '08-'07 



Wiiiis Famiiy 

In Amerioa until May on Keith Oironlt. Leadoa 
Hippodrome two months. .Stoll Tour to fellow. 

WID.B.ARLINOTON 
dUSJie HELSTON 



AND 



"GOING TO THB MASQDERADB BALL." 



SHEPPARD CAMP 

"THE MAK ntOM BEOHmiA" 



LOUISE DRESSER 

Chara.c<eri«iic Song» 
rOR SAl£ 

WIGGINS FARM 



r 



Whm 0m§^mim0 9 4 f wtifm m i $ kimO^ mmtion YABorr. 



VAKISTY 



REPRE8EMTATIVE )i\RTI®T« 



RBPRBSBNTATrVB^ARTIsfW 



TKAT KIAL ■HOW.' 



NMER'S "AN[RI(AIIS" 



ED MINER 



THOt. MoCREADY 

BttslnMS MuuLgvt 



"THE FELLOW FKOM OVER THE RIVSB," 

JOLLY ZEB 

and 
HIB BIX "ZIO ZAO OIBLB." 

That real bic Oirl Act. 
Jnit m*. that's all. 

WILL H. WARD 

"BOHTTLTZ" 
Th« »uooe»«ful Dutch oomadlan. 

THE GIRL VI0LIHI8T. 
M A.R IK STUART 

DODD. 



0LADDT8 



That hie itot. 



HENRY 



CLARK 

HI66INS and 
BERGMAN 

The neatest of all sinflnf and danolag aota. 
BEOOND BEABOM. 

BREimVlT BIRIIIS 

Tha most sensational of all 
Comedy Aerial Aots. 



MAT 



OLOA 



MELVILLE 

AHo ROLLER 

Merry Mixers of Mirth and Mosia. 
A TWO-ACT COMICALITY ENTITLED 

"MIXED PICKLES" 

BY DAVE MARION. 



MINNEAPOLIS, WEEK OCTOBER 8 

DREAMLAND BURLESQUERS 

IB DA?1 MAUON'S BU Mmsleal PUy. 
**ROSKI«AND** 

Under the Dilution of TOM MIVER. 



CABT or CHARAOTEBB 

08oar Fireateli), a theatrical manager, 

Harry Fox 
Joseph Jacob Cohen, bis principal comedian, 

William Laarence 
Dan Smooth, Stanley's pal, ) 
William Dull, an Englishman. - . Dave Marion 
Old John Brown, S 

Fred Stanley, Smootb'a pal... George Dorsey 
Charles Bentley, an belr to millions, 

Mark Thompson 
Captain Kldd, not tbe original ... Pred Barnes 

Constable Ryan George B. Piwca 

Constable Maoadoo J. J. Doherty 

Constable Ketcbem Ike Wall 

Daisy Dash, Flresteln's leading lady, 

Aggie Behler 

Violet Roee Pearl Melnotte 

Rose Violet Coral Melnotte 

Lilly Blossom Adelaide Fell 

Sborty, a telegrapb lad By Himself 

Soubrettea. Sight Seekers, bailors, Pedes- 
trians and Others Too Nameroua to Mention. 
ACT I — On Broadway. 

During this act the following musical num- 
berH are introduced: "Every tbing'a Hustle on 
Broadway," "Duty of an Officer," "Joseph 
Jacob Cohen," "1 Want to be an Actress," 
"Hannah from Louisiana," "Time Will Tell," 
"Good-bye Dear Old Broadw ay." 

Olio. 

THOMPSON A LAURENCE, 



Singing Comedians. 

>k-HE 8Ait6lt 66V^ 

BUOU OOMEDY TRIO 

George L. Dorsey — George H. Piero*— 

J. J. Doherty. 

In Novelty, C omedy and Harmony. 

Walk-Walk-Walk. 



DAVE MARION AND HIB BIG COMPANY 

In "East Side Life." 

HARRY FOX, the Entertainer, 
And the Twin Sisters, 
MELNOTTE, 
Califor nia's Favorites. 

ACT II, SCENE 1— A Path In Ro«eland. 
SCENE 2^-Roseland. 

During Act II. the following original mn- 
slcal numbers are introduced: "Roseland," 
"Rose. Rose, Rose, My Uttle Row," "Good 
Old Uncle Sam," "Where Am I?" 

Tlie production staged under the personal 
direction of Dave Marlon. 



fiBkT >. k^MDttl6K Uanager 



THE BRIGHTEST BPOXE IN THE WHEEL. 



*'Uhe Parisian Belles" Co 

JOHN GRIEVES, MOR. 

Presenting the best of all two-act comedies, 
■A PAIR OF PEACHES." or "MY WIFE WON'T LET ME." 



BERT— 



SOMERS and LAW 



—FRED 



THE AUT0MANIAC8. 



SHEPPARD CAMP 



LEADING COMEDIAN. 



M R T H 


U R Y U L JE 

MIMIC. 


Mildred Grover 

BINGER OF COON 80NGB. 


Alice Warren 

as "MRS. PEACH." 


Lfultx Kees^an 

CHARACTER COMEDIENNE. 


R,ebe Donaldson 

CHARACTERISTIC DANCE ARTIST. 



DALY and O'BRIEN 

THOSE FUNNY TANGLEFOOT DANCERS. 



TAYIOR dRANVlUE 



or VAUDEVILLE, 

Featured with 

FUTURITY WINNEB" 
Season '06*'07. 



A0EVT8, ATTZHTIOVI 

ROLTARE 

With his magloal monolojrea and tha biggest 

flag produotion — flags of all nations— erer pr*^ 
ssntad In Vauderille. Got. 1st and later opaa. 
(Home address, 219 W. 80th St. Phone 

JEANETTE DUPRE 

AND KKR BIZ SWEETHEARTS. 



RICE & PREVOST 

IN 

BUMPTY BUMPS 

Arthur J. Miss Qrace 

MeWATERS ssi TYSON 

In a Spectacular Musical Comedy 
"VrtUDBVIbLB" 

Week Oct. 8, Orpheum Theatre. Week Got. 15, 

traveling. New Orleans. Week Oct. 88, 
Olympie, Chloago, 111. 

JACK INORWORTH 

Pr««ent« THB GOLbBGB BOY 



NAURY KRAUS* 



"m mm naids" 

LOUIS 1. OBERWARTH Manager. 

RUBE BERNSTIEN Business Managw 

JOS. K. WATSON 

"A Bon of the Ghetto." 



JAS. O. 



MORTON .... 
\ DIA/nOND 

Billy Noble 



•THE DIXIE BOY.' 



TOMA HANLON 

The Most Versatile Woman in Burleagua. 



MAX 



QRACE 



RITTER Ml FOSTER 

REFINED SINGERS AND DANCERS. 



SPECIAL FEATURE 



(ORNALLA "» EDDIE 

"Toss-Em and Miss-Em." 



Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 8. 

YANKEE DOODLE (IRIS 



SOL MEYERS, MANAGER. 



PRESENTING TWO BURLE8QUEB WRIT- 
TEN AND STAGED BY JAMES F. LEONARD. 

JAS. r. LEONARD 

ASSISTED BY MISS CLARA WHITNEY 

BILLY HART 

The original Human Ventrilo<iuist figure, as- 
sisted hy Anna Yale and Marie Jaueeen, 
in a real oomedy act "A Plaything." 

LAWRENCE CRANE 

"THE IRISH MAGICIAN." 

Assisted by May Crawford i Co. Introducing 

his latest illusion "Creation." 

JAMES AND DAVIS 

"THE DIXIE BOYS." 
We Talk, Sing and Some More. 

McDeVITT and KELLY 

ECCENTRIC DANCERS AND COMEDIANS. 




T hurher 



AND HER 

4 BLACKBIRDS 



Bookod aoUd Bmsob IBM-T. 

Dlroetloa M. B. Bsathf. 

PltkaaluiM ilMlM 



^^•fSeiii^ 



'THE IfAftSOW FELLXS " 



**. 



STUART BARNES 



DireotioQ GEO. ROMANS 



RIGHT IN LINE. 



"The Merry Maidens" 



CHAS. W. DANIELS. 



BURTON and BURTON 

And Their Mosioal Instruments. 

o»>. Johnsen I Jergeo^" 

Men Who Write and Bing Their Own FaroilM. 
THE MARVELLOUS 

»°> FERRELL RROS. ^>" 

In Their Latest Creation, 
"FLIPS AND FLOPS. 

PAHI OARNEY 

la Repertoire of Bongs. 



SAM RICE 

And His "PEEZY-WEEZY GIRLS." 

EDYTH MURRAY 



The Toy Artist. 



'<"= Ward i Rayner^<»> 

Oomedy Binging and Talking. 






■i 



T. W. DINKINS 

Innocont Maids 



If 



LOUIS HARRIS. MANAGER. 



SOL. 



NAT. 



FIELDS and FIELDS 

COMEDIANS AND PRODUCERS. 

m THE SEYONS ii 

la their laughable sketeh 
"THE CENSUS TAKER." 



JAS. 



noilies m tiazelton 



la their traTMty oa 
'DAMON AND PYTHIA8. 



*i 



JACK 



BCl^a^E. 



Norton iDd ii Trlskd 

In their norelty oreatioa, 

"MESSENGER, CLOWN AND THE HXTMAJI 
DOLL." 



L 



ENNA ONEIL 

THE CALIFORNIA BARITONE. 



OHERIDAH SIMPSON 

•Unriag ta "Tha Sad Feather." 
Plre0tlpB 70i. M. OAITEf, 

Davo NowlSn 

THE MAN WITH MANY VOICBB. 
Kelth-FrMlsr OrMti 




Whrii fitisinriiif/ atlrertincmeutti kiiuHu imntinu Vawikty. 



VARISTY 



■*-^i^i<»»*^^~^»i" 



I Another Flash from the Remick Stable 



FOR 
1906 



FIRST RACE 

"WON'T YOU GOME OVER TO MY HOUSE?" 

WILLIAMS & VAN ALSTYNE •'UP.'* 

THE ONE BEST BALLAD BET OF THE SEASON. If you want to make a 
CLEAN UP get down on this SURE FIRE WINNER. 

Last year we told you to play "Georgia," "Cheyenne" and **Why Dont You 
Try?" They all won in a walk, and those who took our tips WON all the AP- 
PLAUSE. 

^^ : i^ SECOND RACE ; ;^ ^ 

" lOLA"— Sister to "Hiawatha" 

Sired by JAS. O'DEA dt MORET and Dammed by NOBODY. 

Get down on it while the odds are good. Play it now. » 
They'll ALL play it before the race is over. 

'\-'.-':"::'"^^ THIRD RACE 'V/.:.,::-.- ,.;.:;/-■ V- 

" I'M eOlNG (RIGHT BACK) TO CHICAeO" 

By WILLIAMS & VAN ALSTYNE. 

It will win on any track. Performers gave "Chicago" a work out, and say it's 
a record-breaker. It can't fail to win. They're going to drive it over the foot- 
lights all season... '■; , " ~" ':/,' 'V ■• ."'■', .^-. ''?';■■•:''"" :'■■ 



FOURTH RACE 

"ALICE, WHERE ART THOU 




7" 






By HEELAN & GUMBLE. 
Alice is a maiden jumper. She jumped into the lead from the momeat the 
was started. If you want to play something that will finish first, have a little 
bet on "ALICE." She'll win hands down. 

FIFTH RACE 

" LINDA." B, w. J. HiKmi "Camp Maetia' Toaa" 



(Won't you throw a kiss to me?) 
Play it to win. 



By WILLIAMS dt VAN ALSTYNE 
Play it across the board. 



SIXTH RACE 

"SALLY" "IFIOHLYMOTIIEIEm" 

By WILLIAriS dt VAN ALSTYNE. By VINCENT BRYAM. 

>: They're both so good we don't know which to pick. 

\./''''^'''''''..'^<W SEVENTH RACE . 

"I LIKE YGU TOO" 

By WILLIAMS & VAN ALSTYNE. 
Everybody likes YOU. You're a SURE THING. 

Special Tip to DUMB ACTS and ORCHESTRA LEADERS. 



CI 



lOLA" (Instrumental) 

Will win in any race for Popularity. 



Jerome H. Remick & Co., nT^ Tor k 



87-19 CLARK STREET. CRICABO. 



EMOitlv* OffloM I 10 WITHERELL STREET, DETROIT, MICH. 







Bordeverry 



Receipt 




Breaker ! ! ! 



Occupying Place of Honor on Every Bill. 

PLAYING TO PACKED HOUSES. 

Everything refined, dean, de^er, and presented in an artistic manner. 

"Bordeverry! You are the best show- 
man we have ever had or seen!" 

Messrs. THOMPSON AND DUNDY, late MANAGERS of the NEW YORK 

HIPPODROME. ■■'"•'■■;■*■■, ;,;;:■ ~^' „■ ' .--v ■--■ 

In a few weeks all New York will go to the Hippodrome to see MY GREAT 
NOVELTY. 

Week Oct. 8, Majestic, Chicago, 111. 
All communications care of Keith's 0£Bce or New York Hippodrome. 



*" ■ 



The First Anniversary Number of 



VARIETY 



On December 15, 1906, 



Will Contain a Myriad of Features 

of Current Interest 



Applications for preferred adver- 
tising position should be immediately 
made. ' ' ^-^ .■■''::^*'-->''''-'''.----' . v": 



When atiatcerinff advertiiicmenta kindly mention Variktv. 



TWENTY^EIGHT PAG 



FIVE CENTS. 



ru-'ii. 




VOLw IV., NO. 5. 



OCTOBER 13, 1906. 



PRICE FIVE CENTS. 



^Jmf/^rf-//0r 



f^ r 




Entered a$ teeond-claM matter December 22. lOOS. at the po$t off ice at Vevo York, N. Y., urier the ad of Oongrets of March a. 1879. 






VARIETY 



ANOTHER TALKED-OF IfUSIC HALL. 

Within a fortnight official announce- 
ment will be made of the erection of a 
music hall in the immediate neighborhood 
of Broadway and Forty-second street. 
Ko statement will be given out until all 
contracts have been signed and the prop- 
erty legally turned over to a corporation 
formed to build and operate the contem- 
plated establishment. According to pres- 
ent figuring the place cannot be made 
ready for opening within a year. 

Among those interested in the venture 
are three well-knuwn theatrical men, all 
of whom have been at some time or other 
identified with a music hall enterprise 
either in New York or Chicago. It is 
planned to present a permanent stock 
company of the best male and female 
comedians procurable, surrounded by a 
^oruB of women: -The latter are to be 
paid salaries in the neighborhood of $40 
weekly. 



ANOTHER LOCATION FOR WESTERN. 

Chicago, Oct. 12. 

The old Empire Theatre on West Madison 
street, opposite the Haymarket Theatre, 
will be rebuilt within a few months by 
the Empire circuit (Western Burlesque 
Wheel). The building, since it was aban- 
doned by Sam T. Jack after the fire twelve 
years ago, has been considered undesirable 
for any theatrical purpose. 

Its location in the centre of the im- 
proved West Side business district is now 
believed to be most satisfactory for bur- 
lesque and a large amount will be expend- 
ed in reconstructing the house. 

The acquisition of the LaSalle l^eatre. 
Chicago, for purposes of the Western 
Wheel which has been unoflScially reported 
several times, is now understood to be all 
off, the operation of that house as a home 
for musical comedy having proven too prof- 
itable to be discontinued. In its place the 
Kmpire Circuit is busy putting in shape 
the old Kmpirp. 



MIXUP IN TOLEDO. 

Toledo, Oct. 12. « 
Toledo doesn't know where it is stand- 
ing for attractions. .With the Valentine 
Theatre turned over to B. F. Keith for 
vaudeville and the Arcade, a former vaude- 
ville house, announced to play only the 
Shubert Bros.' attractions, it seems prob- 
able that some deal will be arranged be- 
tween Ilurtig & Seamon, who control the 
Empire burlesque theatre in this city, 
whereby that house will be used by Klaw 
& Erlanger for its attractions and the Ar- 
cade devoted to burlesque hereafter. 

Julci^ Uurtig, a member of the firm, 
vf&» here this week but refused to make 
A statement- 



J^«EFUS£ BURLESQUE ADVERTISE- 

■■•**. ■•^;: ■■..■;. MENTS. 

" ^ ^ New Orleans, Oct. 12. 

The New Orleans morning newspapers 
have refused to accept the advertisements 
of the Green wall Theatre, whieh plays the 
Eastern Burlesque \Vheel attractions. Re- 
views of the shows appearing there have 
also been discontinued by the press for 
the reason that the entertainment offered 
is held to be replete with nastiness and 
suggestiveness, usually closing with a 
"houchee-couchee" or oriental dance. New 
Orleans is after "clean" shows, even 
though the box office suffers. 



LOOKS LIKE RYAN IN BUFFALO. 

Buffalo, Oct. 12. 

It looks like a new house in Buffalo for 
the Olympic Theatre Company, the John 
J. Ryan corporation of Cincinnati. The 
site of the Tift House, which was de- 
atroyed by fire, will be the location. The 
company has Buffalo moneyed men inter- 
ested and the site was purchased for the 
purpose some time ago. ,, 

The Garden Theatre has passed under 
the management of "Mike" Shea. It will 
be conducted as a ten, twenty and thirty 
cent house. 



LAMKIN SELLS SAGINAW. 

Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 10. 
It is reported here that H. H. Lamkin 
has disposed of his interest in the Jeffers 
Theatre to a Mr. Newton and C. S. Sar- 
gent. Mr. Lamkin wishes to devote more 
time CO his legitimate attractions at the 
Arcade Theatre, Toledo, O. He still re- 
tains control of the theatre at Bay City, 
this State. 



XEITH PLATS SUNDAY IN BOSTON. 

Boston, Oct. 12. 

Commencing with the coming Sunday 
the Keith theatre here will have perform- 
ances. It is the first time in the history 
of the house that "sacred" concerts have 
been given, excepting for an occasional 
benefit. 

The success attending the Sunday shows 
given by Williams* Orpheum since its 
opening caused Keith to change his policy 
regarding Boston, although it has been 
assured for some time that he would 
eventually keep the Boston vaudeville 
temple open the year around. 



NO BURLESQUE SAYS MYERS. 

Max Myers is authority for the state- 
ment that he m the leasee of the Quartet 
Club building in Hoboken and is rapidly 
transforming it intoi^ a theatre that will 
seat fourteen hun,dred people. He says 
that its policy will not be burlesque and 
at the present time he can not divulge 
the nature of the attractions to be played 
there. • - w . 



MAY HOWARD CHANGES MIND. 

Chicago, Oct. 10. 
Davenport, la., will not be enlivened by 
the burlesque troupe, of which May Howard 
was to have been the star, after all. The 
details were all arranged, Miss Howard and 
the girls engaged, but no money was forth- 
coming and Miss Howard turned down the 
j)roject. The Amusement Booking Agency 
of this city had the matter in hand. 



EAST AND WEST GETTING 
TOGETHER. 

House, Grossman & Vorhaus, the attor- 
neys, have been retained by T. W. Dinkins 
as associate counsel in the matter at issue 
between him and Weber & Rush, whom he 
is suing for an accounting. This would 
seem to indicate that the Empire Circuit, 
tor which the law firm is counsel, is more 
or less interested in the proceedings. 



CIRCLE'S SUNDAY CONCERTS. • 
Commencing on October 28 Sunday con- 
certs will be given at the Grcle Theatre at 
69th street. During the week burlesque 
will be the attraction. The William Mor- 
ris office will book the acts for the "sacred 
concerts." 



AFFILIATION ON ITS WAY. 
^ -'The terms under which the Variety Art- 
ists' Federation of England, the Interna- 
tional Artisen Loge of Germany and the 
White Rats of America will affiliate have 
been agreed upon by the various repre- 
sentatives of the orders. There remains 
the formal ratification to be given by the 
respective bodies, with such modifications 

as may become necessary. Upon the last 
named society advising the others that 
through resolution a proper motion has 
been made ratifying the agreement entered 
into the affiliation will be in effect. 

The important points of the mutual 
agreement are that members of either 
order may ask and receive loans and legal 
protection in any country in which the 
lodges may be represented. It will be three 
months before the details are finally set-. 
tied. 

The Comedy Club of New York is not 
a party to the affiliation, although in the 
condition the minutes of the committees' 
conference were left it may be admitted 
at any time application is made. "' " 

The combined lodges represent about 
6,000 vaudeville artists and about 1,800 
acts. Its total strength is about one- 
third of all variety artists who are eligiVle 
for admission into either of the societies.' 



MISS BINGHAM'S HIGH FIGURE. 

While considering the vaudeville propo- 
sition Amelia Bingham set a price for her 
services weekly which caused the man- 
agers to gasp upon hearing it. The amount 
was $2,000, she to supply a one-act play 
and cast to cost Dot less than $500. 

No one accepted her at that figure and 

it is possible that Miss Bingham would 

not have taken the time if It had, been 

given her. -r T'.i ^^V«' •' "O* 

She says that plans hava been com- 
pleted for the organization ot her own 
company which will present a new play 
by Dorothy Dix and Mrs. Greenleaf Suth- 
erland named "The Lilac Bloom" late thist 
month. The piece is in rehearsal and will 
probably have its tour directed by Klaw A 
Erlanger. 

Miss Bingham denies that she seriously 
considered a vaudeville tour, but it is a 
fact that her husband has been in active 
negotiation with the Keith Agency for such 
a tour for his wife. He was willing to ac- 
cept at $2,000 a week provided she was 
guaranteed ten consecutive weeks. 



WILL HAVE BROWN POTTER. 

A revival of negotiations for the bring- 
ing to America of Mrs. James Brown Pot- 
ter for a vaudeville tour is now on. Both 
the Morris and Keith aggregations would 
like to have her for a period of ten weeks, 
but she is averse to making the trip un- 
less she is given contracts for twice that 
time. For a period of twenty weeks Mrs. 
Potter can be secured for $1,500 per week, 
and it is more than probable that Percy 
William and Oscar Hammerstein will 
bring her over about Christmas. 

On Thursday Percy Williams made Mrs. 
Potter's American representative an offer 
of $1,750 per week for ten weeks with 
an option on ten more, beginning in Janu- 
ary, and this proposition is now being 
submitted to her. 



MRS. LANGTRY DELAYS OPEHIHO. 

The Keith-Proctor management is at 

a loss for a suitable headliner for the 

opening ol the newly acquired Harlem 

Opera House. They essayed to spoil Percy 

Williams' thunder by requesting Mrs. 

Langtry to occupy the principal place on 

the opening bill. Had they succeeded they 
would have attempted to ship her to 
Keith's Boston bouse also. But Williams 
got wind of it and notified Mrs. Langtrj'a 
American agent, H. B. Marinelli. 

The matter was put before the Jersey 
Lily and she promptly eonceded Williams' 
right to object to her appearing at an op- 
position theatre prior to her engagement 
with him. In her notiication to Blari- 
nelli she stated her poflttion cleariy and 
added that at the conchision of her origi- 
nal Proctor-WfUians contract she waa 
prepared to play at any houses thaK^tb^. 
Proctor folks might designate. 

Percy Williams was asked for a verifi- 
cation of the above and said that, while 
he understood this to be the exact cob- 
diticm of affairs, he had no official knowl- 
edge of it. /: 

"Moet certainly I would object to let- 
ting Mrs. Langtry appear at the Harlem 
Opera House prior to her date at the 
Alhambra. Her American tour was ar- 
ranged for the Proctor and Williams 
houses as they existed at that time. It 
was only by a joint contract with Mr. 
Proctor and myself that she could be ac- 
corded a sufficient number of weeks in 
America to make her coming possible. It 
would be manifestly unjust to have her 
appear at the Harlem Opera House, where 
I understand the prices are to be just 
half those charged at the Alhambra, be- 
fore she comes to me. 1 don't anticipate 
any discussion of the matter, but will 
certainly protect my rights." 

At about the time Mrs. Langtry notified 
the Keith -Proctor combine that she would 
not play the Harlem Opera House prior to 
her Alhambra date it was announced that 
the new Keith-Proctor house would not 
open on the 15th. Since then there has 
been a scramble for a suitable headliner 
to replace her and up to yesterday an ac- 
ceptable one had not been secured. So 
hard pressed were the Keith folks that 
they offered to bond themselves to pro- 
tect Mrs. Langtry against any loss she 
might sustain through cancellation or 
other action on the part of Percy Will- 
iams. 

Williams' contract with Mrs. Langtry 
calling for three weeks of her time at 
$2,500 weekly does not, however, contain 
a cancellation clause. The English act- 
ress has taken counsel of her American 
solicitors, who advised her that she could 
be enjoined. Mrs. Langtry is announced 
to play the Fifty-eighth Street house next 
week and the United Booking Agency is 
scanning the horizon for the star act for 
the opening of their Harlem Opera House 
on the 22d. 



NAVASSARS AT THE HIP. 

On October 21 the Navassar Band will 
play at the New York Hippodrome. It is 
the Dial and Armstrong all girl aggrega- 
tion of musicians and has played over the 
Ingersoll-Hopkins park circuit the past 
summer. 

Forty young women will play at the 
concert. Two soloists will sing. It is the 
first time the band as a whole has played 
this city. 



VARIETY 



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1403 Broadway. New York City. 

Telephone 1837— 88th 8t. 

■DIE J. 8ILVEEMAV. 
■dltor and Proprietor. 



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22, 1905, at the post office at New York, N. 7., 
under ttic act of Congress of Maroti 8, 1879. 

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LONDON OFFICE, 

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"DER ARTIST." 

Dusieldorf. 



ADVERTIBEMEim. 

16 eenta an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. One 
page flOO; one-half page, $50; one-qnarter page. 
128. 

Charge for portraits famished on application. 

Special rate by the month for professional card 
nnder headlnj; "Representative Artlata." 

SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 

Annual $2 

Foreign 8 

Six and three montha In proportion. 
Single copies five cents. 

Variety will be mailed to a permanent addreaa 
or a a per ronte aa dealred. 

VARIRTT may be had abroad at 

INTERNATIONAL NEWS CCS OFFICES. 

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LONDON, E. a, EHOLAHD. 

Adrertlsementa forwarded by mall mnat be ac- 
companied by remittance, made payable to Variety 
Publishing Co. 

Copyright, 1006, by Variety Publlahlog Co. 



Vol. IV. 



No. 5. 



The letter head of Richard Pitrot, the 
agent, now reads "Richard is himself 
again." 



"Ma.xwell and l"hidley open on the SuUi- 
van-Considine circuit at Winnipeg, Mani- 
toba, Monday. 



rV»nintoncing in .Tannery the Lion Tal- 
aco, at 1 10th Ktreet and Broadway, will 
give Sunday concerts. 



Miiudc Ourtnoy arrived from England 
this week. The singer opens at the Co- 
lonial Theatre Monday. 



The Six I'rovcjinies, female bicyclists, 
return to Kurop<' next season, ojiening a 
Continental tour at Amstcnbim. 



Sherman and De Forest play their new 
act "A J Circus" next week at l>tck- 
stadcr's fJarrick Theatre, Wilmington, De-l. 



Minnie Dupree has left vaudeville to 
join the cast of the new Shubert produc 
tion. whi<'h goes into rrhearflfll imniedi 

.f*»nie .Taoobs, the London agent, arrived 
U.st Saturday. Miss .lambs will be her*» 
♦ or thvpo or four ^^'>ck:. Rrr .sist'^r i.i 
qiito il!. 



Dave Nowlin, while playing at Keith's 
Union Square last week, exchanged places 
with Lee Harrison at the Fifth Avenue on 
Wednesday.;:; v'*- /■> •:,;■ ',■■,:■ ■.,..^,.. - 



..Joe Shea is booking for the Sunday 
night shows at the Star, 107th street and 
Lexington avenue, of which Fred Follett 
is manager. 



Ssineraida and Senitza, a foreign acro- 
batic act composed of two girls, will open 
at one of the Williams houses in New 
York on the 22d. 



Charles Mack, formerly of Callahan and 
Mack, opens at the Colonial Theatre, Law- 
rence, Mass., Monday with his scenic nov- 
elty, "Back to Erin." 



The Brittons, colored, have confirmed 
from England by cable to Myers & Keller 
their engagement on the Orpheum circuit 
commencing next May. 



Although booked for the Majestic The- 
atre, Erie, Pa., this week, the Dixie Min- 
strels disappointed. Grace Cameron was 
dispatched to occupy the vacancy. 



A huge sign on the building announces 
the coming December 1 of the Shapiro 
Music Publishing G>mpany at the corner 
of Broadway and Thirty-ninth street. . 



Grace Van Studdiford has at last se- 
cured a date. M. S. Bentham booked the 
one-time singer to open in Chicago Octo- 
ber 22. She may play the week out. 



Julian Rose was billed for the current 
week at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, but 
was switched to Pittsburg by the Keith 
.Agency to replace Harry Gilfoil on the 
program. 



The Three Electric Clarks have been 
engaged for "The Innocent Maids" bur- 
lesque company (Western Wheel), from 
which Emma O'Neill, the female baritone, 
has retired. 



Frances Rockefeller King is suinjj Tobv 
Claude for a sum of money alleged to be 
due for press \v«»-l< performc<l by Miss 
King ill exploiting Miss Claude as a 
vaudeville star. 

Owing to a delay in baggjigo delivery 
the Four Casting Dunbars could not play 
the Mohawk Theatre at Schenectady. \. 
Y., this week, their place being taken by 
the Four Livingstons. 



Kdna Aug plays her last engagement 
this season here at TTainmerstein's weel< 
of November 5. Immediately after Miss 
Aug sails ior Paris to take part in the 
( liristinas pantomime. 



ITenry Rosenberg, owner of the Metrop 
nlis Theatre, is looking for an investment 
ill the vjiudevillc line. If a suitable op 
portunity presents itself he will* le;i«e ;» 
theatre in this vicinity. 

f^ee Harrison says Jack l^evy. the figent. 
intends to change his trademark. It has 
bren "Anything there's a Hollar in." Mr. 
tf^nisori frtjitr- fhat the drtjl.ii" wjll be 
r'"p!a/-pd by . tHiit^^ 'cnt?." 



Nathaniel Simongon, a former attache 
of the William Morris office, has taken a 
place in Jack Levy's agency. ^ . 



C "The Ham Tree" may soon lose one of 
its leaves in the person of Belle Gold. 
Miss Gold is not enraptured with the piece 
and is thinking of taking the "Desde- 
mona" number she now sings into vaude- 
ville. 



Smith and Baker have announced their 
intention of closing with "The Cracker- 
jacks," the Eastern Wheel burlesque show, 
at the end of next week, when the com- 
pany plays Hurtig & Simon's Harlem 
house. 



Lasky & Rolfe's "Black Hussars" have 
been booked for the Christmas. pantomime 
at the Grand Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, 
by Fred Karno. Mr. Karno has also en- 
gaged the Harmony Four, now ih~ Eng- 
land, for the same time. 



M. M. Thiese of the Western Burlesque 
Wheel is partner in a venture to star 
Bonita, at present leading lady with 
"Wine, Woman and Song," next season in 
a comedy drama. Four others are inter- 
ested in the enterprise. 



The organ of the artists in England, 
"The Performer," reproduced in its issue 
of September 27, with full credit, Leo Car- 
rillo's cartoon on affiliation (with the cap- 
tion "Slow, but Sure") which appeared in 
Variety two weeks previously. 



At the Twenty-third Street Theatre this 
week Geo. Evans is singing a song not 
composed by himself and is asking the 
audience to join in the chorus. It is the 
only case on record where one song writer 
"plugs" another's output without hope of 
reward. 



The Four Fords were offered twenty 
weeks on the other side. TTpon learning 
that $500 weekly was the foreign price 
for the lancers the time was not closed. 
An offer of one-half that amount wouhl 
have been entertained by the managers 
across the seas. 



.\ number of house niana<:«'rs in the 
vaudeville theatres in Kngland wnul<l be 
pleased to secure an Ameiiciiii po-<ition in 
llie same capacity. Over there ".\merica" 
i- the name for a mint, where you take 
what you want, always lejixiiig siillicient 
|i)i the next fellow. 

I\inu>|ey Benedict will pla\ the jmrt 
ill **'i'lic Futurity Winner" iiiii<l<> vacant 
l»y Taylor Granville, who lc.i\c~ the cast 
to-night. Fred Santa ley will lake the 
character of the eirin<f brother, formerlv 
assumed by Mr. Ihiiiedict. Marion Shirley 
will hereafter l»e the he n» inc. . 



Afauri<'e Si'lilc-^singn. manager f*f the 
.Xiiipliion 'I'licatrc. liiuoklyn. will put for- 
ward a ne\s aspirant tor vaudeville honors 
Suiida\ cvcniiij.' when Lillian DcLoe, said 
to be :i tormer iiiomlicr ot IMslior's San 
I lanci-co operatic >.tock- cniripany. will 
make h^r |oe;i| drbiil ill the vHrieticK. 

Uuiinc rtuf "f the p*»rfo!ni<»n'efc of Ric»^^ 
and Prevost at the Orpheum in Boston, 
F'revost failerl to catcb Rirp hh he lean^'d 
n\ c\ ♦ ht Miir-i<'i;4n'! and tiot h f^'ll int'» '>t 
ih-- tra Fill*- in ;it^*<^mp*in;: ♦> -a' H»ini 



self, grabbed the hair of the cornetist and 
landed on the floor with a toupee in his 
hand. . ■■ -.■ ' ■ . ■ 



At last Saturday morning's rehearsal 
of the entertainment given that evening 
at ClJarnegie Hall by the Metropolitan 
Street Railway the Elinore Sisters vol- 
unteered the statement to Hugo Morris 
that they regarded the playing of the 
New York Sunday night concerts by any 
act booked at the Victoria as a breach of 
faith. Clarice Vance evidently looked at 
the thing in the same light and can- 
celled her scheduled appearance. The Eli-, 
nores replaced her. 

From far-off Circus Shumann Ike Roue 
forwards a single sheet showing his wife, 
Saharet, billed at the head of it for the 
theatre. Mr. Rose also forwarded a Rus- 
sian theatrical paper printed in Odessa. 
The name " looks sdawful intbe Russian 
print that we are in fear of having it 
translated. The English reading portion 
of the paper, however, is full of "Variety 
says" and it was that which caused Rose 
to fiend it on. 



Saturdays are holidays for the stafT of 
the Morning Telegraph. 'Hiat is the day 
Variety comes out. Without a suspicion 
of credit the Telegraph helps itself to 
Variety columns for its Sunday edition, 
and looks like a newspaper on one day 
in the week as a result. Even "Ren" 
Wolff has the habit. If Mr. Wolff ever 
printed before we did anything in his 
column in that sheet of sufficient import- 
ance for Variety to use, we would make 
ackiiowle<lgment. 



While Alfred Butt, the manager of the 
I'alace in Ix>ndon, was in New York Va- 
riety printed several items leflecting the 
.\merican opini(m of the Englishman. J. 
Laurie Graydon, son of J. L. Graydon, 
the prominent English vaudeville manager 
and the largest shareholder in the Palace, 
|tlace«I the several articles on a large 
-beet and formally presented the lot to 
.Mr. Butt upon his return. The Ivondon- 
ers when they heard about it gaped in 
ama/einent, but Mr. Graydon evidently is 
not awed by the importance of Butt. 



riie License Miireau declares that prac- 
tically all the vaiKb'ville agents have got 
ill line under the new Employment Agency 
law. and those few who have not yet done 
so lia\c annouiK'ed their intentions of com- 
ing in within a few weeks. So complete 
has been the disposition among the agents 
to come in that all the inspectors, wh(» 
lormerly were assigned to the theatrical 
<listrict l<i run <lown violators of the law, 
lia>e been withdrawn with the exception 
ot one whose l>usine^^s it is to look into 
the new agents who go into the business. 



.\ttendance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre 
-.iiice its hitcst policy ot" continiUMis vaude- 
Nillc was iiiaii;.'urate(l has not been stu- 
pendous. The bill for the o[»eriing week 
iccei\e<| such severe censure by the re- 
viewers on the tiaily [>apcrs who drop|ied 
ill to look Mrs. Langtry over that it wfll 
ie<piiie some tiino to coiintei ;i'-t Mie pffor-l 
I hi« "*»elv Mis lyHiitrtry ayipears in h«T 
•ketch, followed by Harry <^iilfoil, who is 
obliged to ffive his act in the same setting 
provided by thr> manaffcm<»nt for the Eng- 

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VARIETY 



HENRY W. BEHlfAN DIES. 

Henry W. Behman, of the firm of Hyde 
&. Behman, died at his home in Flatbush, 
L. I., on last Tuesday afternoon. His 
recovery had been in doubt since stricken 
with pneumonia two weeks ago. 

Mr. Behman was forty -seven years of 
age. He left a widow and four children. 
The Hyde & Behman Amusement Com- 
pany, of which Mr. Behman was a mem- 
ber, is one of the wealthiest in the coun- 
try, and he is supposed to have left a large 
fortune. 

Extensively known and respected in 
the theatrical world, Mr. Behman was 
especially noted for his integrity. No one 
ever asked him for a written contract, his 
simple word being considered equal to his 
,bon<L. His treatment of vaudeville artists 
had always been generous, tii cases whettf- 
a cancellation became necessary Mr. Beh- 
man would instruct that the artist receive 
his full weekly salary. 

Mr. Behman's death will have no direct 
effect upon the management of the frm's 
enterprises. The practical direction for 
some time has been under the supervision 
of Bennett Wilson, the general manager, 
and Nick Norton, who gave his attention 
to the vaudeville and burlesque end of the 
business. 

Archie Ellis, in charge of Hyde & Beh- 
man's Star Theatre in Brooklyn, is a 
brother-in-law of the deceased and also 
conversant with the Arm's aflTairs. 



CINCINNATI PAPERS AGAINST 

. ■v^,'-v:'v-;.-.:-;. oLYBipic. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 12. 

riifie is every indication that the Cin- 
cinnati newspapers, or a majority of them, 
are "after" Ryan's Olympic Theatre. The 
Times-Star this week in its reviews did 
not mention that theatre or its bill in any 
way. The Post "roasted" the artists and 
stage management. The adverse comment 
is having its effect. 

The Olympic has not provided the usual 
courtesies for the papers here, and in one 
instance the management wrote to the edi- 
torial department of a daily that its re- 
viewer was trying to "graft" tickets. A 
universal "pounding'' by all the papers 
will prol>ably follow unless Mr. Ryan 
wakes up. 



HURTI6 & SEAMON BOOKING. 

Hurtig &, Seamon are again doing busi- 
ness as a regularly licensed employment 
agency and are therefore able to book acts 
for other managers. It will be remembered 
that the firm was refused a license under 
the new employment agency law, it having 
been shown, it was alleged, that they gave 
illegal contracts to artists and took advan- 
tage of this circumstance on one occasion 
when an act attempted to recover damages 
under one of these agreements. 

The firm threatened to seek a writ of 
certiorari from the courts to compel Li- 
cense Commissioner Bogart to grant a re- 
hearing of their application for license, and 
upon a review of the matter it was agreed 
between the agents and the License Bureau 
that the Hurtig & Seamon office should 
be admitted to regular standing upon 
their agreeing to eliminate the alleged un- 
fair clause from their contra«'ts. The 
agents agreed to this compromise and were 
granted a permit to book. 



HAS REAL "HEADLINER" NOW. 

Baltimore, Oct. 12. 
Previous to this week the headliner on 
all Kernan's bills played here has been 
"Keith's Vaudeville," featured in the bill- 
ing and advertising. For some reason or 
other Mr. Kernan dispensed with his 
standby this week, engaging instead 
Amer's Band, which occupies the space of 
the former feature in the advertisinf and 
is more substantial for stage use. 



DILLINGHAM WANTS ANOTHER. 

The Royal Five are refusing time after 
a«rt March, to which month they have 
been booked. Helen Myer, the youngest 
girl in the quintet, was offered an en- 
gagement by Charles Dillingham, who con 
siders her a coming Edna May. 

On account of her youth Miss Myer's 
parents would not listen to any proposi- 
tioa. 



AFTER LILLIAN. 

Immediately following the unanimous 
"panning" received by "Barbara's Mil- 
lions," in which Lillian Russell made her 
appearance on Monday night last at the 
.Savoy Tlieatre, from the critics, the vaude- 
ville agents all rushed for the fair one in 
the hope that she would be induced to 
abandon the play, if the play didn't do 
that first, and again come into vaudeville. 

One or two managers were looking to- 
ward the Savoy all this week with long- 
ing glances. "It's an ill wind" with the 
rest, and while the wealthy titled piece 
may have blasted several of Miss Russell's 
iimbitions, it seems to pave the vaudeville 
way for one big attraction in this dearth 
of such. 



"THE SPRING CHICKEN" INVOLVED. 

Edgar Selden, manager of the new Mau- 
rice Shapiro Music Publishing Company, 
threatens to take legal steps to prevent 
Richard Carle from enjoying undisturbed 
possession of the musical comedy "The 
Spring Chicken," now playing at Daly's. 
Selden has declared that the production is 
cx>pied from one of the same name which 
he wrote and in which Sam Collins starred 
five years ago. Darcy & Wolfort, who 
were interested in that venture, arc also 
involved in the threatened litigation. 



CAN HAVE RITCHIE. 

If !i reasonable route is assured Adele 
Ritchie the singer will leave the "Social 
Whirl" and take t«» vamleville. Miss 
Ritchie dislikes the "road" over which 
the show is now bound. Vaudeville allows 
her time in New York and the renumera- 
tion cuts some figure, in this case said to 
be around $750. with $1,000 weekly asked. 

A solitary week was. offered Miss 
Ritchie some time ago for Cincinnati, but 
she declined, not wishing to take the dip 
for a short period. 



LYKENS& GRAU? 

Stranger happenin^rs has vaudeville had 
than that William L. Lykens and Robert 
rJrau should form u partnership in the 
agency business, lioth are now agents in 
a way. Lykens is connected with the 
Keith OflBce and Ornu paddles jiis own 
canoe at a Broadway addres.«. 

They have been seen in earnest <^f»nfab 
lately. The result may be a firm Know 
injf each other well, the torms should be 
ea/iily arranged. 



MORRIS AGAINST POLL 

The first invasion of the Poll circuit 
by William Morris will occur next Mon- 
day, when Morris places a show in the 
Nelson Theatre, Springfield, Mass., fol- 
lowing it with another aggregation the 
succeeding week. The first bill will be 
headed by Arthur Prince and Ida Renee. 

When S. Z. Poli was apprised of the 
coming of the Morris aggregation he set 
about to strengthen his bill. 

"The Futurity Winner," which played 
Williams' Orpheum Theatre in Boston a 
short time ago, has been added to Poll's 
bill for next week as the headliner. 

WAITING FOR BEDINL 

With a power of attorney given him by 
Kred Karno before the English manager 
=iW,ite<l;for.hpmet.AJf. Reeves, who has had 
the management of the Karno compaiiies 
in America under his direction, has author- 
ized William Grossman, of House, Gross- 
nuin & Vorhaus. to bring an injunction 
proceeding against Jean Bedini in an effort 
to restrain the playing by Mr. Bedini of 
"A Night of English Vaudeville," which 
when first shown in New York City was 
a deliberate and complete copy of Kamo's 
"Night in an English Music Hall." 

Mr. Reeves was unable to proceed be- 
fore .Mr. Karno came over, lacking the 
[•roper legjil authority to act for him. 
Mr. Reeves has secured copyrights for all 
the Karno productions now playing here. 
The two latest are "A Night in the Eng- 
lish Slums" and "The Jail Birds." 



CHEAP SHOWS IN BRONX. 

The Enterprise Company, a corporation 
having among its directors Milton Aborn, 
the former vaudeville agent, has taken a 
lease on the premises at 150th street and 
Third avenue for the purpose of giving a 
"Penny Arcade" show on one side of the 
premises, while on the other, with a con- 
necting door, will be a "five-cent theatre." 

The scheme is to reach the crowds both 
coming and going. Upon leaving one 
amusement resort, they will be "shooed" 
into the other. The idea if successful will 
probably be extensively followed up by 
the company, giving a cheap combination 
show in all the large cities. 



CRONIN HOME. 

After a long absence abroad Morris 
Cronin. the club juggler, is in his native 
land once more. Mr. Cronin opened at 
Keith's Boston theatre this week, giving 
two acts on the bill. 

One is an animal offering, while the 
■>ther is a magnified edition of his previous 
club swinging. Cronin now employs five 
people in his act proper, all made up 
to represent himself. The audience is con'- 
fused in discovering which one threw the 
club and who caught it. Cronin is said 
to receive $750 weekly. 



The weekly meetings of the White Rats 
will be held on Thursday evenings here- 
after. 



FEIBER BOOKED LOTS. 

H. H. Feiber, tfie' foreign representative 
for the United Booking Agency, lately 
arrived home, will remain here until next 
January, when he will make another trip 
arroHs the water. Almost every steamer 
until next March will bring over one or 
two acts to play the circuit. Mr. Feiber 
has practically booked all the foreign ma- 
terial he will require for the next two 
seasons and on his trip abroad in Janu- 
ary contemplates laying out time for 
foreign artists for IPOP and \W». 



ERIE CHANGES MANAGER. 

Erie, Pa., Oct. 12. 

Last Saturday William A. Lang left 
Erie and his post as manager of John J. 
Ryan's Majestic Theatre here. Mr. Lang 
goes to Chicago, it is understood, still 
in the employ of Mr. Ryan. r 

No reason is ascribed for his departure 
unless it was the antagonism Mr. Lang 
raised among the newspaper men here, al- 
though the fact of the former manager 
having started a "pie baking" contest on 
the stage in the middle of a $2,500 bill 
the opening week may have lent an in- 
fiuenoe toward his finish. Mr. Lang liked 
himself better than Erie. The house pr«»- 
Krani carried a full-sized photo of .Mr. 
Lang, labeled "our hustling manager." 

Frank A. Gark, who recently returned 
from Australia, is now at the Majestic 



PRINCE GOING HOBIE. 

According to schedule Arthur Prince, the 
English ventriloquist, should have saile<l 
for home to-«lay, having cabled his hoin«' 
agent that he will book in his own coun- 
try for the immediate future. Asked for 
the reason Mr. Prince said: 

"It is not from any lack of pro|K»sitions 
to remain here — oh, dear, no. William 
Morris wants me to head a traveling or- 
ganization in conjunction with my wife. 
Ida Renee. We shall do that next week in 
Springfield, Mass. The Keith people also 
desire my services, in addition to which 1 
have propositions to visit Australia and 
South Africa. I had some negotiations 
with Henry Harris for a series of special 
matinees at the Hudson, but cannot agree 
upon terms. He is willing to furnish the 
house and I the 8h(»w on a basis of an 
equal division of the receipts. But I feel 
that I should have sixty per cent. With- 
out desiring to appear inflated I think that 
I am a drawing card. As no one alto- 
gether agrees with me I shall go back to 
England and there play for about half 
the amount, which with my appearances 
in private will net me almost as much. 
I can live cheaper and better in England." 



CLAIMS GENEE. 

It is claimed bv M. S. Benthani that 
before a great while shall have passed 
away. Mile. Genee. th<' premier ballet 
dancer now playing at the Empire in l.on 
don, will have a New York vaudeville ap 
pearance to her credit. 

Other agents aver that the dancer is 
booked until 1908 with the Empire man 
agement and cannot play in America be- 
fore that time without the Empire's con- 
sent. 



A FEW OF riSCHER»S BOOKINGS. 

Among the attractions contracted for 
abroad by Clifford C. Fischer for the cir- 
cuit booked by William Morris are Will 
Evans, an English comedian; George Mo- 
zart, who might be similarly designated; 
Nat Travers, coster singer; Harry Mc- 
Allister, facial mimic, and the McNaugh 
ton Brothers and Alice Lloyd. 



PERHAPS? 

Kennedy, Evans and Erroll, the principiil 
comedians of Thomas W. Pinkins' "Balti 
more Beauties," may be sent out next 
season by that manager at the head of a 
musical show. 



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HOWARD AND EMERSON DIVORCED. 

Chicago, Oct. 12. 

The last chapter in the Howard-Emergon 
divorce proceeding reaehed the court (his 
week. MiM Eniergon has been granted an 
absolute divorce. The decree provides $1, 
000 in cash and $50 a week alimony. Miss 
Emerson related many incidents in connec- 
tion with her marital troubles and brought 
witnesses to substantiate some of the 
charges. Howard was not in court and the 
ease went by default. 

Mabel Barrison secured a divorce from 
Hilly (iaston <.ri the ground of cruelty. 

linmediaU?ly uft«?r Howard was divorced 
!•*• and Maliel liarrison left for Hammond, 
Ind., in an automobile, where they were 
nmrrie<l. 



BILLPOSTERS' TROUBLES. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 12. 

'J'he Olympic Theatre has been made a 
codefendant in a suit brought by PhiUp 
Morton against the ancinnati Bill Posting 
Company and others. It is a fight between 
billposters. Morton cUims that his com- 
petitors are tearing down his posters to 
replace them with the Olympic paper. 

Morton says that he had arranged to 
attend to the Olympic's billboard adver- 
tising, but could not secure any admission 
tickets to placate the property owners for 
the space used. 

The Olympic Theatre Company is in- 
cluded in the suit on the ground that 
it is acting in collusion with the other 
defendants to deprive Morton of his rights. 
At the hearing in the Common tPleas 
Court decision was reserved. 



MEYERHOFF SUES. 

Papers are awaiting service in a damage 
suit against the vaudeville organization of 
The Marions and Millie Zoar, which played 
Pastor's last week, by attorneys for the 
New York Vaudeville Contracting Com- 
pany. 

Henry Meyerhoff of that company de- 
clares that he booked the act to play Pots- 
dam, N. Y., during the County Fair week, 
September 3, and that the performers neg- 
lected to appear or notify him of their 
intention of cancelling the date. He as- 
serts in his complaint that this action on 
the part of the players occasioned him a 
loss of $250 and he sues to recover that 
amount. The summons is made return- 
able October 16. 



J. B. MORRIS COmNG UP. 

J. B. Morris, the manager, with offices 
in the Shubert Building, last week bought 
the Richmond Theatre in North Adams, 
Mass. This gives him a three-cornered 
circuit, the other houses being Glovers- 
ville and Amsterdam, N. Y. It is prob- 
able that within a few days Morris will 
have the announcement to make of the 
acquisition of another house, according 
to report. Joe Shea ia booking the bills 
for the circuit. 



CAN'T GET ALCAZAR. 

Negotiations between William Keough 
and the Empire Circuit, looking to the re- 
turn of that manager's Alcazar Theatre, 
Brooklyn, are imderstood to be all off. 
Keough is said to be pretty well satisfied 
with the results of the new arrangement 
under which the Stair & Havlin melo- 
dramas play his theatre. 



ENGLAND WANTS GIRLS. 
The H. \i. Marinelli office has been re- 
(juested to secure La Belle Daizy for a 
London appearance next season. The ad- 
vices ask also that the Hengler Sisters 
be shipped along at the same time. 

CLEVELAND LOSES AGAINST BERZAC. 

ancinnati, Oct. 12. 

The attachment secured by W. S. Oeve- 
land, acting for the Olympic Theatre Com- 
pany, against Woodward's Seals, owned 
by Cliffe Berzac, while Berzae was playing 
the act at Chester Park in this city, was 
vacated last Monday and the damage suit 
under which the attachment was obtained 
dismissed at Norwood, O., where the case 
was called for triaL 

, Mr. Cleveland or his attorney did not 
appear, and the money deposited by Ber- 
zac to secure a bonding company has been 
returned. It cost Berzac about $100 in 
expenses through Cleveland's action, and 
the affair is looked upon here as a petty 
piece of work by the manager. 

Pogue & Pogue, Berzac's Cincinnati at- 
torneys, have been instructed to bring suit 
against Cleveland and the Olympic Com- 
pany for damages sustained. There is 
now a judgment of $40 costs against 
Cleveland resulting from the dismissal of 
the attachment. 



REFUSED SEASON'S ENGAGEMENT. 

With the offer of next summer season 
at a profitable figure dangling before "That 
Quartet," otherwise known as Sylvester, 
Jones, Pringle and Morrell, the four male 
singers glanced at it with an icy stare, re- 
turning a negative answer to Oscar Ham- 
merstein, who through his son William 
greatly desired their services for the full 
length of the next summertime at the 
Victoria Theatre. 

The members of the quartet say they 
may play one, two, three or four weeks 
during the '07 spell of warm weather, 
but a full season is removed from favor- 
able consideration. The past summer on 
the New York Roof, where the boys sang 
once daily, only settled future engage- 
ments of a similar nature. 



JOHNNY RAY HAS HIS SAY. 

From away out in the West Johnny 
Ray wants it known that he will not give 
up his starring tour with "Down the Pike" 
for any time in vaudeville, at least before 
next May, when the piece's route sheet 
runs out. 

Mr. Ray and his manager think they 
are carrying a ball club along with the 
organization which has some players in it. 
What it could do to the Geo. Cohan, Rog- 
ers Brothers or Harry Mock's Victoria 
baseball clubs, for the championship of 
the theatrical world, both Ray and E. J. 
Bulkley, the manager, do not hesitate to 
remark. 



LEDERER'S HOUSE DOING BUSINESS. 

Chicago, Oct. 12. 
The Star Theatre on Milwaukee avenue, 
managed by Jas. L. Lederer, is doing so 
well that there is some talk of changing 
it to a "two-a-day" house with higher 
class acts. 



ENGLISH ACT GOES HOME. 

By this time Dome, the Clay Modeller, 
is either on his way back to England or 
has purchased his ticket for the trip. He 
opoiied at the Urpheuni Theatre, Brook- 
lyn, upon his arrival, having been booked 
from the other side to play several weeks. 
After the first appearance Morris' ollice 
decided he was more available for the 
smaller houses and the big time laid out 
around New York was changed. 

Last week Dome played with the Morris 
company in Washington. He was to have 
played at Lynn, Mass., this week. Doiut 
did not care for the trip, and on bunda> 
wired "Lynn too far away. Am going 
lo Loudon." Nellie Coleman, an imper- 
sonator who played one consecutive week 
at Keeney's some time ago, will return 
with the modeller. She is his wife. Her 
act passed off without notice and Miss 
Coleman is also disgusted with America; 

Wilson Hallet, the Englishman who im- 
l^crsonatcs children, may play Hammer - 
stein's next week. At one time Mr. Hallel 
thought of returning to London. He 
opened on the Williams circuit and, al- 
though favorably reviewed, was not over- 
loaded with immediate engagements. Mr. 
iiallet holds a contract tor eight weeks 
from William Morris, received through 
the Marinelli ollice. Upon arriving here 
he was giveu a subcontract by Percy Wil- 
liams for four weeks. After playing two 
of the four the contract was brought to 
Mr. Williams' attention, when no further 
booking was received and he placed Mr. 
Hallet for one week more. 

Hallet at one time threatened suit under 
the Morris contract, but that contained no 
clause calling for continuous time. There 
was a provision, however, allowing can- 
cellation for "incompetency," but this has 
not been urged. 

The Kronemann Brothers, a Cerman ac- 
lubatic act, are waiting for engagements, 
l^ooked for fifteen weeks through the Mar- 
inelli otlice for Morris, they have been 
here three and played one so far. Of the 
fifteen they have dates for five, but are in 
ignorance where or when the remainder 
uf the time will be filled. 



PREPARING FOR NEXT SEASON. 

Messrs. Shubert and Anderson are al- 
ready making extensive preparations for 
next season at the Hippodrome. A num- 
ber of mechanical effects are being ex- 
perimented with and some novel scenic 
illusions are expected to be shown. For 
the circus portion of the bill for next 
Hcason's production contracts are now be- 
ing made with the Fredianis, the Eight 
Jordans and Weedon's lions. 



"DUEL IN THE SNOW." 

Frank Slivers Oakley is pondering over 
whether he shall appear in vaudeville 
with the pantomimic production "The Duel 
in the Snow," which was played at the 
Colonial Theatre when that house first 
opened under the management of Thomp- 
son & Dundy, or present the baseball game 
with which he has become identified. 



" PINCUS IS HURT. ;; 

Henry Pincus feels that he has been 
slighted, absolutely overlooked, and in fact 
i;;n()rcd altogether by lionel E. I^wrence, 
May Vohc and several others who have an- 
nounced their intention of producing 
•Mam'zelle Champagne" at the Berkeley 
Lyceum on Fourty- fourth street when that 
playhouse opens under the management 
of Geo. Blumenthal. 

Mr. Pincus says that if he deems it 
expedient he will take some legal steps 
to protect his interests in the matter. 
"It seems to have escaped every one's 
in ind," said Mr. Pincus, discussing the 
matter, "that 1 made this piece possible 
on the Madison Square Roof last summer. 
When it came to me, and for some time 
afterward, it was a lumpy mess. Untan- 
«^ling the ravel, I played the piece through 
tiie summer. Lawrence was my stage 
iiianuger. Now he and others, without 
even saying 'Ah, there,' walk off with my 
property. I have been negotiating for its 
production elsewhere, and you don't think 
1 shall sit quietly by to see my property 
destroyed, for me at least. I am going 
t<» protect it. My counsel advises me that 
w ill be an easy thing to do. Had they 
the common decency to have asked my 
permission, I would not feel so wrathfuL 
Hut now if they play 'Mam'zelle Cham- 
pagne' without my consent, I am going 
to be a surprised man." 



SHAPIRO AFTER WRITERS. 

Geo. Evans may be on the staff of com- 
posers Maurice Shapiro is planning for 
his music publishing establishment when 
it starts operations in December. Will D. 
Cobb and Gus Edwards may also connect 
themselves with the Shapiro firm. 

Among the writers who are said to be 
already under contract with the new house 
are "Bob" Keiser, Will Cobb and Silvio 
Hein. It was also reported that Shapiro 
was in negotiation for the purchase of Gus 
Edwards' catalogue, but this Mr. Edwards 
denies. 



' MORE COLOR. 

After the announcement last week of 
the organization of two colored acts comes 
the further information that Ed Rogers 
is preparing to put out a singing organiza- 
tion of twelve negroes, using the old 
"Memphis Students" scenery and some 
new music written by Rogers. The new 
act will be called "Ed Rogers' Twelve 
Cotton Blossoms." The Boyle agency is 
looking after booking. 



BLANCHE RING NEXT. 

"Dolly Dollars," with Blanche Ring "fea- 
tured," playing at the New York Theatre, 
has so emphatically failed to interest the 
public that Miss Ring's return to vaude- 
ville is not unexpected. 



JULIE MACKAY NEGOTIATING. 

Lew Fields is reported to be after Julie 
Mackay for "Around Town." Miss Mackay 
is playing in vaudeville at present. 



POSSIBLE AGENCY FIRM. 

It is likely that Louis Wesley and Joe 
Pincus may shortly become partners in 
the agency business. Pending the nego- 
tiations Pincus is acting as manager for 
William Morris' travelling organization 
and Wesley still has his office with Felix 
Reich and James Plunkett. 



RUBY SAYS. 

Jules Ruby is getting up a new act 
to be called "The Bricklayers' Union." 
Marky and Moran, the vaudeville team, 
have been engaged for the principal parts, 
Ruby says. 



GEO. FULLER GOLDEN PLAYING. 

Geo. Fuller €k)lden will play Toronto 
next week. After finishing the Toronto 
date Mr. Golden will return to Saranao 
Lake, N. Y., and resume work upon a 
poem and play he is now writing. 



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THE WOMAN IN VARIETY 



Cooflnc yoar l«tt«rs to 100 words and writo oa ono 
Anoayniouo coannuiilcatloas will not bo printod. 
bo kold In itrlct conlldoDco. If doslrod. 



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Boston, Mass., Oct. 5. 
Editor Variety: 

We notice a team in last issue of Va- 
riety calling themselves "The Dancing 
Wonders." For the benefit of those using 
that title would say that I have had it a 
great many years as the Brown Brothers, 
later as Brown Brothers and Lillian 
Wright, and now as Jack Brown and Lil- 
lian Wright. Jack Brown. 



Lowell, Mass., Oct. 6. 
Editor Variety: 

I should like to bring to your notice 
a couple of "gentlemanly" artists who 
are appearing on the bill with me this 
week. They call themselves Raymond and 
Caverly. On arriving in Lowell last Mon- 
day they found that my humble offering 
("The Comstock Mystery") was billed as 
the headline attraction and immediately 
set out to make themselves obnoxious. 
Throughout the week they stood in the 
wings while I was on the stage and in 
audible tones delivered themselves of such 
remarks as: "Where in h — does she 
come in to be the headliner?" Truthfully 
I quite agree, but inasmuch as the re- 
ceipts for the week broke the record of 
tlie theatre by over $200, I think we 
should defer to the more expert judgment 
of the management. Charlotte Parry. 



Cincinnati, Oct. 6. 
Editor Variety: 

— I want' to inform you that the bicycle 
act known as Mosher, Houghton and 
>fosher has copied my "shoe-wheel.** Can*t 
something be done to the thieves who use 
other people's brains and ideas? The 
fault lies a great deal with the managers 
who tolerate such brazen stealing. 

H. E. Ritchie, 
Of Barber- Ritchie Trio. 



Oct. 11. 
FUiitor Variety: 

For the benefit of some of your readers 
who may be unfortunate enough to be song 
writers, T am willing to let them have the 
benefit of the expert legal advice I have 
obtained on an important phase of our 
crtlling. 

I nm serving a big New York music pub- 
lisher with papers that will compel him 
to return tnanuscripts of mine which he 
has delayed publishing over a year. My 
iittorneys advised me that a })recedent has 
Immmi established, and when I "get mine** 
I will be delighted to help any of my 
I>ri»llirrs "pet hia*n." 

Will D. Cobb. 



K«litor Variety: 

A Mhort while ago a discussion arose re- 
parding ownership of titles, and who were 
really the originators and producers of 
the various old-time acts now being put 
on under the guise of first and after 
pieces by the "wheel" burlesque shows. 
The ancient mariners assembled on the 
Sjjarkey Avenue Rialto. after due de- 
liberation, decided that 'Sim Dempsey" 
was written bv old Jack Sheehan, who is 
now working a frankfurter quarry in 
Brooklvn. Charley l>uncan is the author 
Of-"A Dollar for a Kiss," while Roger 



Dolan and Tom Coyne wrote the words of 
"Tonsorial James," although Hinch Camp- 
bell composed the music for it. 

"The Three o'Clock Train** was evolved 
in the brains of Tom Kennette and Andy 
McLeod while they were playing the Or- 
pheum in Steubenville, Ohio, and the well- 
known Texas producer, Frank Moore, 
wrote "A Trip to Paris" in conjunction 
with Abey Cantor. i: - 

Everybody credits Billy Watson and 
Jules Ruby as the authors of "Muldoon*s 
Picnic,*' and last but not least it was 
discovered after deep research that "Casey 
the Piper" was written by Jim Jacobs 
and Maurice Lowry. I hope this will 
settle all arguments regarding authorship. 
There remains a question who first wrote 
"vaudeville." Barney Gallagher and Jim- 
my Neary are the claimants. 

Jack /ricin, 
Recording Secretary for the A. P. Ass'n. 



Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 6. 
Editor Variety: 

I read in "Artists' Forum" that the Cy- 
cling Zanoras claim to be the originators 
of the "ladder" trick; then again Schrock 
and Rice claim that they are the origina- 
tors of it. I will place both right. It is a 
fact that four years ago myself and Mike 
Berg (now the "straight" man of the Za- 
noras) were in Boston and saw for the 
first time that trick done by Schrock and 
Rice, then with the "Zig-Zag Alley*' show. 
The following week we had a ladder built 
and did the trick for a year afterward. I 
am not doing it any longer. The ladder 
we used is now in ^Miner's Eighth Avenue 
Theatre, New York. I have $500 to give 
jiway if the above i^ not correct. I know, 
because T taught Berg how to ride a uni- 
ryclc. Sam Silver ^ 

With Miner's "Bohemians." 



Sheboygan, Wis., Oct. 6. 
Editor Variety: 

I want to make a statement that may 
interest vaudevillians in general. Through 
the non-opening on time of the associa- 
tion houses at Dubuque and Des Moines, 
la., Mr. Jones (Jones -O'Brien Circuit) of- 
fered me his time. I was not particular- 
ly elated at the prospect, but since play- 
ing Fond du Lac and Sheboygan, Wis., I 
have been agreeably surprised. Their pol- 
icy is the same as in the first-class vaude- 
ville theatres. 

It Arthur Lane, the new part owner and 
manHp»'r, continues a.s he has begun there 
is no doubt of success. 

These houses are now in direct line with 
all the other smaller though eminently re- 
spectable houses booked by the Western 
Vaudeville Association. No one need 
blush to say they have played there. This 
letter is written by me purely with a view 
to correcting prejudices and from no desire 
to pose. Louie Dacre. 



The treasurers of the several Brooklyn 
theatres have organized. 



Greene and Werner, "The Babes of the 
.Inngle." were married last week. 



By ANNA MARBLE. 



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Women's dress on the variety stage has 
been revolutionized within the past year 
or so, and indeed the reform is a welcome 
one. In these the still early stages of 
the movement there remains plenty of 
room for progression, as a visit to any 
first-class vaudeville show will attest. I 
want to place my laurel crown for the 
smartest gowned woman upon the beau- 
tifully marcelled mahogany tresses of 
Valeska Suratt, whom I — and a goodly 
company of others of her sex — regard as 
worthy to wear it. Of course we must 
all admit that, given the gown, Valeska 
is also equipped with some one hundred 
and thirty pounds of loveliness with which 
to fill it. This helps a lot, but in these 
days of infinite resource the fact should 
not be too discouraging to less favored 
females. 



There is really no excuse for the ill 
appearance of any woman on the stage 
nowadays, which makes it surprising to 
see the glaring effronteries against good 
taste which are committed by some women 
in variety. Why, oh, why, for instance, 
<lo fat women go in for frocks of those 
materials known variously as "panne vel- 
vet," "chiffon velours," etc., and which are 
characterized by the masculine auditor 
under the generic title "plush"? The em- 
bonpoint of a certain pleasing actress 
whom I have in mind is at present being 
unnecessarily accentuated by a gown of 
brilliant orange-hued "panne," which would 
be rather attractive on a slim figure, but 
which called for the opinion from a man 
who sat near me: "She reminds one of 
ji aofa!" 



1 would like to record here a mild pro- 
test against an abuse which flourishes in 
an unpleasantly public fashion in variety 
theatres. It is specially noticeable and 
objectionable amongst foreign acrobatic 
acts. I refer to the unnecessary predomi- 
nance, not to say pervasiveness, of the 
stage guardian or parent, male or female 
as the case may be, which is sometimes 
expressed in the following instance. A 
clever little girl juggler (a former pupil 
of CMnquevalli) who is winning deserved 
success is assisted in her act by a buxom 
matron whose display of diamonds does 
away with the necessity for a spotlight. 
One wonders why this person does not 
expend some of the cash earned by the 
little juggler for the betterment of the 
latter*8 wardrobe rather than upon the 
;»dornment of her own uninteresting per- 
son. It is the child who is the bread- 
winner and yet her stage gowns are 
neither as plentiful nor as attractive as 
she requires. A few dainty frocks with 
frilly lingerie would do more toward in- 
creasing the value of this act than can 
ever be effected by displaying diamonds 
on a lay figure. 



Helen Bertram opened with her new 
sketch at Easton, Pa., last Monday. 



Apropos of the same subject I know of 
a foreign band which has had exceptional 
success in this country and amongst the 
members of which a similar state of affairs 
is unhappily to bo found. The band is 
made up of small boys, some of whom 
receive the munificent wage of $1 a month 
juid board. I fancy the board cannot be 
too substantial if one must judge by 



the pallid faces and thin little bodies of 
the lads. The man who owns the act 
certainly receives enough out of it — for 
it is excellent of its kind— to afford fairer 
treatment to the youngsters, who are 
doubtless sent to this country as ap- 
prentices to the bandmaster. 



If little Miss Rooney, of Kennedy and 
Rooney, will take this tip from me she 
will enhance the daintiness of her brown 
and yellow butterfiy gown immensely. 
Dear little Miss Rooney, why do you have 
purple lingerie with this frock? It would 
be so much prettier if your chiffon under- 
skirts were graded in color from that of 
the hem on your frock to a pale yellow 
shade for the most "intimate" frills. 
Then if you added yellow flowers instead 
of purple ones to the headdress I think 
you would agree with me as to the im- 
provement. Of course if you want a really 
wonderful effect you can get it by using 
cloth of gold or cloth of silver dancing 
skirts. At any rate, do try the yellow, 
and, by the way, you absolutely spoil the 
dress which you wear during the finish 
of your act in "one" by using two clashing 
shades of pink. That in your hat is sal- 
mon color, while your lingerie is a seashell 
shade. (Isn't it hard to say that last?) 



Grace LaRue's pretty frocks are sadly 
missed from the vaudeville stage. Here 
is a girl who knows how to dress effec- 
tively. I don*t want to make this column 
strictly sartorial, but I am moved almost 
to the dangerous point of gushing when- 
ever I think of the dainty gowns and 
daintier dancing skirts which Miss LaRue 
has now transferred to the scene of 
musical comedy. Every time this act 
(Burke and LaRue) came to town I used 
to watch for some new fad in hats or 
shoes or material and I was never dis- 
appointed. Now that Grace has left us 
I have to look for Ray Bailey to sustain 
my interest in her stead. 



The wife of a certain vaudeville man- 
ager — for obvious reasons I dare not give 
his name — confided in me last week the 
ruse to which she resorts in order to be 
sure that her spouse is truthful when he 
claims to be called "out of town** over 
night. I>ast week he told her it was 
Philadelphia to which he must wend his 
way, so she kissed him good-bye and bade 
liirn bring to her a box of candy from a 
fashionable confectioner in the Quaker 
City. I thought this was rather a clever 
expedient until I happened to hear the 
.-Icnographer of the manager eulogizing the 
t'cnerous spirit of her employer. "Ah,** 
she said, "Mr. So and So is so good to his 
wife. Why, what do you think he did 
the other day? He sent our office boy all 
the way to Philadelphia to get a box of 
her favorite candy I" 



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.\ serious accident befell Frank D. Hill, 
manager of the Orpheum Theatre, Read- 
ing. There is a parrot in« the office which 
Sydney Wilmer. <»f Wilmcr Jk Vincent, the 
t hi'.itre'x owners. brouj.'ht back from South 
.\merica. While Mr. Hill was playing 
with the bird it suddenly llew at him, 
catching the miinairer by Die lip and biting 
him severely. 



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NEW AGTS or TMC WbCK 



NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 



InituU PreMnuuun ur First Appearance 
in Mew Yuik City. 



Josephine Cohan (N*'\v Sketch), Oolonial. 

Maude Courtenay (IJfapiK'aiance), C<» 
luiiiai. 

Metropolis Quartet, Colonial. ^ 

Julie Mackay ( Reappearance), Hyde & 
I'ehnian's. 

Everhart (Keappea ranee), Keith's. 

Seabrooke and Hall, Keeney's. 

Estelle Sisters, Keeney's. 

Johnston and Hardy, Keeney's. 

Garry Owen (New Sketch), Pastor '.s. 

Krause and Beach, Pastor's. 

Ihe D'Arcos, Pastor's. 

D'Elmar Brothers, Pastor's. 




Harry Tate. 

"Fishing." 

Hammerstein's. 

'Fishing" is funnier than "Motoring." 
Both sketches belong to Harry Tate and 
are satires on popular pastimes. In "Fish- 
ing" the humor i» broader and there are 
Knglish lolloijuialisnis scattered through- 
out which might be translated into the 
.\nierican veruuruhir with benefit. The 
humor of a man goiuK fishing with nine 
bottles of whLskt'v and a shotgun inn- 
not be mLstaken. The setting is 

pretty and realisti<'. No more may 
the Kngli8h be awuHed of a density 
in quick appreciation of humor. To 
follow Mr. Tate and his company in 
"Fishing" requires an alertness of mind, 
for the subtle points are passed over rap- 
idly. There is continual laughter during 
the twenty minutes occupied in showing 
the audience how an "amateur" can catch 
a solitary fish by stealing it from an- 
other's hook. Mr. Tate gave an excellent 
performance of the typical Englishman 
and a bibulous angler. The company in- 
cludeH five persons, each earning distinction 
in his respective role. Harry Kennedy as 
the "lone fisherman" pressed the principal 
c!osely. Thomas Tweedlang, the "village 
idot," caused plenty of mirth in a laugh- 
able part. There is no (piesti«>n as to the 
success of the piece. If Mr. Tate's other 
farces even approach Iho two he has shown 
us so far they shoujd be hurried right 
over. »S'i»iic. 



W. H. Thompson and Company. 



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••For Love's Sweet Sake." 
Colonial. >/ 

This one-act playlet from the |»en of 
Clay M, (ireenc, which introduces Mr. 
Thompson, late star of "The Bishop's Car- 
liagc,' to the vaudeville stage, is pitched 
throughout ill very niiich the key of 
strained sentiment that might be suggest- 
ed by the title. Sanford Morgan, million- 
aire (Mr. Thompson), returns to New 
^ Oik after five vears abroad in search of 
hcaltli to (iiid his son in <liHiciilties and 
under threat (tf arrest foi an embezzle 
iiieiit committed b\ another man. The 
son accepts the otlium of tlio crime for 
the inexplicable vr;ison that he loves the 
wife of the really guilty man. The action 
of the sketch develops from the .struggle 
of the younger man to convince his 
father of the righteousness of his course. 
This rather unconvincing story is handled 



with ciinsummate skill by the author, who 
makes it almost plausible. Mr. Thompson 
as always makes a splendid "old man," 
and 'J'homas H. Ince as the son played in- 
telligently and with s^ome fire in the 
heavier scenes. There is considerable un- 
neces^ary talk in the early part, and the 
presence of a messenger boy could not be 
e.\|dained even by the phrase "comedy re- 
lief." HuHh. 



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Hubert Wilke.| 
"Remembranci"/^ 
Keeney's. ^' 

John Luther Long and Edward Childs 
(arpenter wrote "Kemembrance," selected 
by Htjijert VVilke, the former operatic 
baritone, for his vaudeville support. A 
woman would term it "sweetly pathetic." 
At Keeney's this week, where the playlet 
is receiving its first city presentation, it 
is youthful Jerome Fernandez with 
Messrs. Long and Carpenter's dialogue 
that brings to the sketch considerable ap- 
plause. The child's part which the young 
boy (he seems not over eleven) plays has 
l)een so naturally written that all the 
interest centers in him. \N hat there Is of 
a si(»r,v i.s watery. A husband absents 
himself for six years, returning upon the 
eve of his wife's marriage to another. 
Disclosing his identity through a familiar 
song, the finale is not alone illogical but 
weak in construction. Mr. Wilke with his 
forty horsepower voice sang two or* three 
times. Agnes Delaine, the deserted wife, 
lost any opjiort unity her part aflforded 
for a display of emotional acting, and M. 
IVrcival Leniion as the suitor in her grass 
widowhood gave also a wishywashy love- 
sick sea captain. Deduct the boy and his 
character of the son and there remains 
Mr. \\ ilke with his voice only. For one 
so young Master Fernandez evinces ex- 
ceptional aptitude and intelligence. The 
audience liked him, as everyone having 
any kiiowled;;e of the child when he is at 
the "bogie-man'' age must. Stmt. 

Holcombe, Curtis and Company. 
"Midnight Prowlers." 
Pastor's. 

With Kdyth Palmer in the place former- 
ly occupied by Margaret Webb, Herbert 
llolcomhe and Sam J. Curtis are playing 
and singing a new sketch that no one 
will take the program credit for. As the 
title indicates, it has to do with burglars 
of the noisy variety. Owing to the neces- 
sity of the trio singing together, Messrs. 
lb>lc(wnbe and Curtis can not '"burgle" 
long. Mr. Holcombe does not leave his 
former cliaracter of the schoolmaster far 
«'nongh in the rear to obliterate it from 
memory. Mr, Curtis is made up much 
the same as before and sings likewise, 
having one selection unsuited for his 
voice. Miss Palmer, while looking well, 
does not e»|ual ^liss Webb vocally. Her 
tones are cloudy. Tt is a relief, however, 
to see some one in the sketch who is not 
remindful of Sadie Cushman both in dress 
and speech. It is too bad that the ex- 
periment was not tried on Miss Palmer's 
predecessor. There i«« opportunity for fun 
on the lonventional comedy burglar lines 
in the '"Midniglit Prowlers." Up to last 
Tuesday little progress has been made in 
developing it. Unless that happens soon 




the managers will probably insist upi)n 
the former piece. /^;.• • ^ .' tiimt\ 



"The Scottish Fusiliers." 

"Gill Act." ,,:-,..;..%;';"' ;V^' ■■•.■"■:■■.. 

New York Theatre. ^, 

Kemoved from the 'Buster Brown" 
show where it had been a "number," the 
sixteen girls composing the ''Scottish 
Fusiliers" appeared at the New York 
Theatre last Sunday night preparatory to 
a vaudeville trip if the debut proved suc- 
cessful. It did in a mild way. The main 
point of merit to the act is that the 
young wonien drill without a leader. The 
formations are simple and the manual of 
arm.s gone through not complex, but 
the absence of a drill master on the stage 
earns for the act what it would not other- 
wise receive. The opening with songs and 
dances is slow and should be condensed. 
As a "girl act" for vaudeville use, if not 
too expensive, it will find time. 

w '■■• -. ■ , iSime, 



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Emil Hoch and Company. 
"Love's Young Dream." 
Hyde & Behman's. 

(Jetting away from the familiar lines of 
much n«)ise and strained comedy situations, 
"Love's Young Dream," presumably writ- 
ten bv Mr. Hoch himself, furnishes not a 

ft' 

little ([uiet but effective humor. For the 
certainty with which the points of the 
little i-omedv are deli\ered i»ver the foot- 
lights much credit is due to Walter Lewis, 
who handles a "fat" part capably. Flor- 
ence Burnsmore does well as the ingenue, 
while Mr. Hoch in an "old man's" j»art 
does most of the feeding to the younger 
pair. .\ better finish would help the piece, 
lloch cheats himself out t»f an opportunity 
for a good curtain by remaining on the 
stage to indulge in a short soliloquy. 

HuMh. 




Count DeButz and Brother. 
Comedy Bicyclists. 
Union Square. 

This pair has been [daying the West, 
but apjiears in New York for the first 
time this week. The comedy man has 
some new ideas both in straight riding 
ami in the comedy department and the 
two show seveial striking tricks not seen 
before. Thev make a finish of a twoliiah. 
the topmoiiiiter standing erect, while the 
uiKlerstaiider drives the machine on «)ne 
wheel. The act stands out from all the 
rest and should win |dac«'. RhuU. 



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Mrs. Jules Levy and Family. 

Musical. 

Keeney's. ^ 

Kver green in the memory of the musi- 
cal world, the name of the deceased fa- 
mous cornetist carries weight. His 
widow, with her two children, boy and 
girl, are apix'aring at Keeney's this w<m k 
after a vaudeville tour West. The young 
woman plays a violin, and Jules Levy, 
Jr.. the son, handles the instrument upon 
which his father gained a worldwide repu- 
tation. While not as yet showing any 
brilliancy in the playing of it, his youth 
may be accepted as the reason. Mrs. Levy 
accompanies the children upon a piano, 
singing in the finale, which is a mistake 
re.piiring immediate correction. .\ finish 
alone by the two yoiingsters would bo 
preferable, with the mother "faking'* 
some instrument if she insists upon ap- 
pearing then. It is a pretty act in its 



way. A profitable investment would l>e 
made by having it rearranged. tiimc. 



Sue Smith and Paul Fisher. ;• /;,; 
Operatic Sketch. . J ? .>; • 

Union Square. L^ - * v :^ ' ' 

"'J he Kose of Castile" is the flaunting 
title of a musical sketch, the libretto by 
.lean Lenox and music bv Harrv (). Sutton. 
The structure is not conspicuous, the act 
differing fnun a straight singing turn only 
ill its scenic .netting and Spanish costum- 
ing. It offers a vehicle, however, for the 
very delightful voice of ^liss Smith. The 
score is a bit ambitious and rather above 
the complete appreciation of ordinary 
vaudeville audiences, but the voices of the 
principals carry it. Mr. Fisher rather lacks 
the ease of carriage he is called ujMJn to 
display, but his excellent tenoi voice 
makes compensation. Rush. 

Young Sandow and Lambert. 
Strong Men. 
Union Square. 

The regulation "physical culture" act, 
with posing in a black cabinet and feats of 
strenjith. In the latter part the two men 
i:se each other for weights. Both display* 
unusual development, but aside from that 
have little by way of novelty to recom- 
mend them. They attempted several two- 
high handstand feats, but either slipped or 
performed them without style. Htinh. 



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Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hussey. 
Ventriloquism and Music. 
Pastor's. 

Adding his wife and a violin to his 
former ventriloqual specialty Mr. Hussey 
falls into the classification of "New Acts" 
owing to the length of the Pastor pro- 
gram this week. Mrs. Hussey contributes 
two solos on the instrument but is other- 
wise unobtrusive. Hussev is well liked 
by the audience and did he grow a mus- 
tache would be more thought of. He 
>liould practice speed in delivery, and were 
the two "dummies" to have a rapid-fire 
argument without interruption some good 
lomeJy could be derived. There is a 
walking figure for the finish and Hussey 
injects into it a deep voice quite 
out of the ordinary in ventriloquists. He 
has a wide range and should seek to per- 
fci't the act when that resource will be- 
come of value. *»iwit'. 



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Don Carlos. 

Dogs. 

Keeney's. 

Playing North for the third week after 
leaving Mexico, according to Mr. Keonoy, 
Don ( arlos first shows an "Aga" canine. 
The trick is worked as well as any of its 
predecessors and with a dog as the inani 
mate figure it is an interesting exhibition 
of skilled training. The animals arc 
*cute" in appearance and .the act averages 
well in its class, making a first-rate mati- 
nee number. *Stme. 

Carroll and Doyle. 

"McNulty and the Sporting Duchess." 

Pastor's. 

Carrying a pretentious sketch title for 
a conversation in "one." Carroll and Doyle, 
making their first appearance at Pastor's 
this week, display an excellent brogue by 
the man and a pa|M>r hat on the woman as 
the features. The remainder of the act 
is in need of considerable attention. 



VARIETY 




Annette Duval. : 

Songi. 

Paitor*!. 

In the lobby of Pastor's I'lieatie thi» 
week 18 hung h frame holding Aye photos 
of Miss Duval. Did she appear on the 
»tage in any way resembling either of her 
likenesses it would be much easier to gain 
applause. Now she is working very hard 
for it without much reward. With a 
pleasant little voice and manner 8he might 
have an agreeable act were she to go out, 
look over her pictures and then try to 
copy herself. Sime. 



OUT OF TOWN 




Josephine Cohan. 

"A Friend of the Family." ; 

Lyric, Buffalo. 

A one-act farce by Will M. Cressy and 
Fred Niblo had its premier at the Lyric 
this week. It has these characters: John 
Hobbs, just married, Nellie, his wife, and 
Tom Grayland, an old friend. Time and 
place, the Hobbs summer home. Miss 
Cohan is the wife, in which role she shows 
a good bit of acting. The sketch was a 
laugh producer and heartily enjoyed. 

DuDon. 



V 

aude- 



Julia Marie Taylor and Company. 
"A Subject of the Ciar." 
Temple, Fort Wayne, Ind. 

Choosing her home city for a vaude 
ville debut, Julia Marie Taylor, formerly 
leading woman with Richard Mansfield, 
presented "A Subject of the Czar," a one- 
act melodramatic offering. Miss Taylor 
has the support of Frank Jones and Wil- 
liam Mong. It is doubtful if even the 
efficient work of the three can carry the 
piece to success. It is devoid of action 
excepting the dramatic finale and conse- 
quently is too draggy. De Witie, 




Lillian Apel. 

Pianologue. 

Orpheum, Minneapolis. 

This young woman, who formerly ap- 
peared in sketches, works in full stagr 
with a grand piano and devotes herself en- 
tirely to straight piano playing, with the 
exception of one "coon song," which she 
recites to her own accompaniment, some- 
what after the manner of Augusta Glose. 
She also has some verses by Louis Wes- 
lyn. press representative of the Grand 
Opera house, Indianapolis, upon which nro 
strung three selections. Miss Apel is a 
liandsome young woman and beautifully 
gowned, but would probably reach more in 
the house if she would work in one. At 
])resent it is difficult to catch her spoken 
lines. . Chapin. 



The Kingston Traction Company, of Ja- 
maica, West Indies, has sent to New York 
one of its representatives with power to 
engage a number of American vaudeville 
and circus acts suflRcient to keep its 
amusement park at Kingston running all 
year 'round. Maurice Boom was ap- 
proached and asked to be booking agent, 
and will in all probability act in that ca- 
pacity for a while at least. The disad- 
vantage in playing the date is the cost 
of $45 for tranfi-portation each way from 
New York and the loss of two weeks for 
the round trip. 



f). A. Bolien, now with Eddie Emerson, 
will horoaftor be programed as Jerry Bald- 
win. 



PARIS NOTES. 

:i:'y$^'.f/ By TOM HEARN. '-'^' ■■■■••-•■ 

Paris, Sept. 30. 

Paris is full of burglars. Upon arriv- 
ing here I was surprised to see so many 
imitation acts in one city. It made me 
lofk my trunk. These people are capable 
of anything. There are two "Mumming 
Birds" in Paris. Reed Pinaud at the 
Marigny and Ciabtree's at the Alhambra. 
Kreri Karno says neither has the right to 
do his act. There are two Radhas, Ruth 
St. Denis, the original, and the counter- 
feit at the Olynipia. Many daring rob- 
beries have been committed, but this one 
is the limit. She has taken the name 
without the slightest alteration, making 
Little'"Pich" and the W. C. 'Gields" stand 
out as honorable artists. The Radha copy 
was in Paris two weeks ahead of Miss St. 
Denis. 

••Price" and ••Revost" were at the Ma- 
rigny. It is hard to believe that two men 
would so faithfully copy Rice and Pre- 
vost yet be so bad. Like all ''copies" 
there is a roughness that will never wear 
off. Everhart sails October 4 for America. 
He has a nunjber of new tricks that keep 
him well ahead of all imitators. Cole and 
I)e Lose are at the Folies Bergere and 
also Spissel Brothers and Mack. I hear 
that both are doing well. 

Gadbin is the name of the man who is 
at present featured at the Folies. A forty 
liorse-power automobile runs over his 
hands, arms, legs and body. The car car- 
ries six people. Whether it will draw or 
n<»t remains to be seen. Being run over 
by motors in Paris is not uncommon. 
The drivers here are so clever they can 
hit you every time. 

Norman French is topping the Scala 
hill. Tiller's troupes are numerous. 

Campbell and Johnson are liked at the 
Olympia. Kara is back from Australia, 
topping the Olympia bill and a big suc- 
cess. Josephine Sabel is also at the Olym- 
pia, doing very well. The Millman Trio 
go from here to Amsterdam. They ex- 
pect to return to America January, 1008. 
(Jipsy Woolf and company are at the Ma- 
rigny. 

I.e Rov i.ma and Hosfo are topping 
the V I bill. Thev go to America 

).oon. . '*'V this the best illusion act 

in the I- «. Following the death of 

the \\•Al^ .*\ I hear of the deaths of 

Harry Burnell and Mrs. Albert Egbert. 
The HoUoways will soon bo leaving for 
Vniorica. They open at (ho Hippodrome. 

R. A. Roberts' now sketch is supposed 
(() be his best. He has booked for South 
Africa and Australia in '08. Uo may ro 
(urn via Frisco. It all depends upon (ho 
price. About $2.(HM) \Nookly will do it. A 
nice little juinj> *'n»Mi (ho $r)()0 oti his last 
visit. 

DENIES BERNSTEIN'S CLAIM. 

In roforonco to (ho sui( alleged (o have 
boon instituted by Kroonian Hernstcjii 
against .Max S. Witt for broach of eon- 
tnu't. ex-Supro?no Court . fudge .lulius 
Ilenrv Cohon savs that .I»»o I'incus and 

■ • 

not Mr. Hornstein started (lie suit, to 
which Mr. Witt has a good and coniplo(o 
«lef«'iiso, 

.\ bill of par(iculars ha> been a-^kod 
from the plaintiff, but as ye( no( fur 
ni«*l)ed. 

The Razarfs were billed at Pastor's 
this week but did not appear. 



LONDON NOTES. 

? * By C. C. BARTRAM. 

VARIETY'S London Office, 
40 Lisle Street, W. 

It is said Harry Fragson, at the Tivoli, 
will be lured to America by one of those 
"largest on record" salaries. S'omerg and 
Warner have booked for America George 
Mozart, 'The Universal Fun Ptovider," 
and Will Evans, the latter son of a circus 
clown and with much inherited drollery 
that w«mld be well liked in the States. 



The as.sociated agents lately broke off 
negotiating with the Variety Artistes' Fed- 
oration and agreed to disagree. The Fed- 
eration wanted the 10 per cent cut to 7% 
per cent, the agent to get 5 per cent guar- 
anteed and the Federation 2% per cent. 
Out of this reserve the Federation agreed 
to make good for those delinquent in pay- 
ment, firing them out of the Federation 
also. The agents figured that this 2Vi per 
cent would run into thousands of pounds 
and decided they would rather split per- 
centage with managers, as is now done, 
than contribute money to the beneficial 
schemes projected by the Federation. On 
breaking with the Federation the agents 
got after the managers and in order to 
keep the percentage rake-back they get 
from every salary paid an artist, the man- 
agers promptly decided on a world-wide 
combination, I believe per cent splitting 
is now illegal in New York State and that 
New York agents got the law passed. 
Hence your managers will hardly lose 
much sleep over the English percentage 
graft or barring troubles. 



A representative man at Warner's 
Agency says: "There is no money in Lon- 
don." The great West End establish- 
ments are excepted, but one of these tried 
to hire a good turn the other day for 
$35. Butt's bluff that he is playing Marie 
Tempest in excess of $750 per week "no one 
believes. In New York Butt was asked 
at Keith's agency what he thought a cer- 
tain act was worth. "$150 a week," said 
the boy from the Palace. "We pay it $450 
a week and think we are getting it cheap," 
was (ho answer, duly proved by the books. 
People are expected to work cheaper here 
to get what they*call a "London reputa- 
tion." In the provinces money is much 
better, stars of greater and less degree 
-etting two or three times their I>ondon 
pay. In a lawsuit some time ago it was 
proved (hat a woman getting $25 in a 
I.oiKlon hall had contracted for $100 in a 
provincial town. 

One Amoriean act getting $75 in I^ondon 
has a trunk full of .American contracts at 

To an old Londoner there is something 
humorous in that statement about sal- 
aries* that cannot be mentioned, but they 
would \>o "eye-openers." No doubt they 
would. Did not your correspondent say 
".omething a few letters back about the 
•friglitful slaughter in salaries"? Did he 
not say po<»ple were rushing after Rick- 
anls and Feiber to get away from great 
London? 



"THE MAJORS" COMING. 

A foreign comedy act new to this coun- 
try will appear on the Williams circuit 
(>ctol»er 'J2. Called "The Majors." it come« 
over under the auspices of Arthur Prince, 
the English ventriloquist. 



"SUNDAYS" CAUSING DISSENSIONS. 

A secret movement is on foot among 
a number of artists to protect themselves 
against the inroads made on their serr- 
ices by the United Booking Agency. Art- 
ists dare not protest openly for fear of 
incurring the wrath of the Keith folks, 
but some action is nevertheless contem- 
plated. .■.:•..•.■•■:..:..■.,:.■ 

Beginning with Sunday before last all 
artists playing Paterson the previous six 
days were compelled to come to the 
Brooklyn I'olly Theatre and play two 
performances. They were not consult- 
ed as to whether it was agreeable, 
but were peremptorily ordered to do to. 
A circular letter was handed each artist 
on Monday saying that inasmuch as the 
jump was a trifle inconvenient they would 
be rewarded with a payment of one-sev- 
enth of a week's salary, their baggage 
would be hauled free from Paterson to 
Brooklyn and back to Hoboken fnd that 
a music rehearsal was not necessary, at 
the leader of the Paterson establishment 
would personally conduct the Sabbath per* 
formances at the Folly. 

To those who protested it was ex- 
plained that a clause in their contracts 
read that the management reserved tht 
right to play the acts on Sunday and 
that the one-seventh of a week's addi- 
tional pay was in the nature of a gra- 
cious present by Mr. Bruggemann. If 
this proved unpalatable it was stated 
that the Paterson house had not been 
profitable and that Manager Bruggemana 
had threatened to turn it into a combina- 
tion theatre. Therefore all artists should 
be interested in a movement to retain ont 
more vaudeville establishment, and this 
Brooklyn Sunday show was organized to 
encourage the Hoboken -Paterson manager 
and keep him from backsliding. 

In some quarters, however, it is shrewd- 
ly HUHpected that the little Sunday "graft** 
at the Folly is still the perquisite of Jo 
Paige Smith, who represents Bruggemann 
in the offices of the United Booking 
Agency. 

From another quarter rises the voice of 
one Bransby Williams, an English artist 
who is now playing the Proctor circuit. 
The following is taken from an interview 
with Mr. Williams printed in a recent is- 
sue of a Newark daily paper: 

**Why," he exclaimed, "your managers 
here seem to want to make slaves of 
artists. I like my work and would not 
itiind giving four performances a day here, 
but just fancy my being ordered to carry 
all my luggage back to New York for 
just one performance that I had no idea 
T would be asked to give. And also being 
obliged to break the Sabbath by a re- 
hearsal as well. It is making you sweat 
too much for your wages." 

I.<ast season the foreign artists dis- 
sented from the Proctor policy of shift. 
ing players in out-of-town theatres to the 
New York houses. After the matter was 
taken up by the International Artisten 
Tv<ige, the Proctor management was less 
insistent when a strong objection was 
made. 



John T. Fay, who is a help to his wife 
in reading mind<», has jojnod the "White 
Bats." 

Harry Tate'* latest act, "Fishing," will 
be booked by the William Morris office for 
the season. 



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VARIETY 



.'C\ . 



Shows of the Week^^^l 1^^^^^^ By Sime 



THE MAJESTICS. 

The costuming in Fred Irwin's *'Ma* 
jestics," playing at the Murray Hill The* 
atre this week, looks new. Perhaps it is. 
With the exception of a few who did not 
appear last season with the show there is 
nothing not seen before. 

"Down the Line," "For Girls Only,** 
Larry McCale, Gus Fay, Gertie DeMilt 
and Jeannette Lansford are all there, with 
two "sister acts" in the olio. 

Even if Mr. McCale is giving the trav- 
esty on "The Derby Race'* still, he has 
"cleaned** up the burlesque. He is no 
longer informed by the school teacher 
where he may sleep or whom he may sleep 
with. The elimination might have oc- 
curred for the New York house only. 

As with the "Big Show'* Mr. Irwin has 
paid attention to the chorus' vocal train- 
ing, with good result. There is some 
singing among the girls and it doesn't 
come from the principals, excepting Flo 
Wallace, who really is a chorister. 

There are some good-looking girls in the 
crowd One red-haired young woman, 
either Maude Harvey or Evelyn Walker, 
has passed Gertie DeMilt for comeliness. 
Gertie now receives second money. Gert 
and Fanny Watson, though, can dance 
more quickly and better than Harvey and 
Walker, the other sister team, who sing 
more— or less. The last-named couple 
wear silver girdles, one in the form of a 
snake, carelessly twisted so it must be ob- 
served. It "dresses'* the act. Miss Wat- 
son goes through a great deal of manual 
labor in her dancing. She is no light- 
weight, a fact admitted by her while step- 
ping. 

Gus Fay and Wm. LutE make up the 
"Dutch** olio act, although "Fay and Far- 
ron** are still billed. Two parodies, new 
nnd old, with some rather poor talk and 
the "quart of beer" encore made a fair 
showing. Inea and Lorella with acro- 
batics and Marceline comedy are still 
talking. That was a fault when they first 
showed on the New York Roof. Another 
fault is that the comedian thinks over 
well of his eomedy. The audience likes 
the aerobatics. 

Sam Dessauer has been installed as 
manager of the Murray Hill and on Wed- 
nesday evening smoking for the first time 
under the new management was allowed. 



JOLLY GRASS WIDOWS. 

That an actress would appear in a ''spe- 
cialty'* upon Broadway with copied ma- 
ferial is not as surprising as the fact of 
a manager overlooking the original whom 
he had seen. When Carrie DeMar "did'* 
the "doir* on the New York Roof last sum- 
mer her professional friends remarked 
"great." Whatever credit Miss DeMar re- 
reived should be turned over to Ruth 
Everett, now with the "Jolly Grass Wid- 
ows." Miss Everett has been doing the 
same thing for five years, and what is 
more, she does it ever so much better than 
Miss DeMar, who copied her faithfully, 
even to facial expression and the "busi- 
ness" of the act. 

For ont-and-out theft Miss DeMar 
takes rank with the Zarrow Trio in the 
name show. TTils Is a bicycle act, stolen 
bodily, even to the minutest detail, from 
Campbell and Johnson. A new drop nnd 
entrance with a "straight" rider are the 
only differences. It Is as bold a piece 



of thievery as the Bedini steal from 

Karno. -.;■•• ■ 

The "Jolly Grasa Widows" is a slow 
moving body, illuminated only by the 
presence of Miss Everett. She is a mag- 
nificent appearing woman on the stage, 
and looks the Frenchy part she plays in 
the pieces to perfection. 

There are eleven or twelve girls in the 
chorus, without the semblance of a voice 
in the crowd. The volume of sound is 
so thin it seems to dissolve into the air 
before passing over the footlights. The 
only two lively persons in it, Rose Meyers 
and Marie Gruet, have been placed in a 
sextet. 

A number of changes are made. In the 
first three numbers the same tights are 
worn, while afterward a couple of com- 
plete changes occur. The comedians all 
come out of the olio. Perin Somers leavoi 
the question open as to what character he 
is made up for, but Mr. Somers finally 
works his way into the good graces of 
the audience. 

' ■ • ■ ■ ■ • 

Al and Jack Gruet, who have an olio 
act of fair burlesque merit (not consider- 
ing the soiled costumes), take care of 
parts of the comedy and worry along. 
Arthur damage tries to pass with a 
Johnny Ray style of Irishman, but, of 
course, he is not Ray and at times he is 
not an Irishman. 

There is a dinner scene with some nasty 
dialogue in "The Frolicsome Widow,** the 
first part, that is dragged out too long. 
About the burlesque called "Are You a 
Lobster?" the program says "original.** 
Even the title is not that. A great deal 
of frayed comedy is given. The com- 
edians appear to enjoy it. 

Maida Dupree works hard all the time 
and sings in both the pieces and olio. 
Tillie Storke has a song, but a voice that 
does not equal the poorest one in the 
chorus. 

Moving pictures have an olio position, 
and Garden and Somers a1»o appear there 
with xylophones, pleasing the crowd. Per- 
in Somers and Arthur damage assist 
Miss Everett in her act. For a large 
woman her "doll" is remarkably well 
done. 

Fulton and Hogan are the proprietors 
of the "Widows." They have nothing to 
boast of. "The Widows" may be of the 
grass variety, but they are far from 
"jolly." 



HAIOIERSTEIN'S. 

There is a rattling good bill this week 
at Hammerstein's, winding up on Monday 
afternoon with moving pictures of the 
automobile race of the Saturday before. 
An English farce "Fishing" (New Acts) 
was the attraction for the "regulars," 
and it was also the first appearance at 
this house of Chris Richards, an English 
comedian. Mr. Richards is unique. Noth- 
ing like him, either American or foreign, 
has been seen over here before. Originally 
intended for a contortionist, Richards has 
psoapcd that fate, providing plenty of 
fun in everything he does, the least of 
which is not his juggling a hat. Richards' 
feet work like piston rods and he is as 
light as a feather upon them. On he 
hold the pace for a longer time than is 
required for vaudeville purposes, Mr. Rich- 
ards will be a rich "find" for anv Broad- 
way manager. 



Nora (without the "h") Bayes appeared 
in an elegant Parisian black gown, so ex- 
pensive that a ground cloth was laid for 
its protection, appearing to a disadvantage 
through the wearing of it. One must be 
in the mood for the Bayes young woman. 
On the East Side or at Terrace Garden she 
would be a "scream" always with her 
German and ''Yiddish" sayings. On 
Broadway it depends how many national- 
ities are in the audience. The black dress 
worn by a brunette of Miss Bayed' pro 
nounced type gave her a solemn and 
unpicturesque appearance which her ma- 
terial could not offset sufficiently to con- 
vince the audience she was funny. 

Mrs. Jimmy Barry also came out in a 
new dress which should have been black 
and wasn't. Mr. Barry has a new song, 
not overwhelmingly popular, with an im- 
personation of Geo. Cohan and an exten- 
sion of his pantomimic work. The last 
is well. Were it not that so many others 
are "doing" and have "done" Mr. Cohan, 
Barry's imitation of the boy comedian 
would have carried a question mark. , ■ 

Selma Braatz repeated her clever jug- 
gling without a ftlip, and Greene and Wer- 
ner gave "Babes of the Jungle." Eddie 
Mack opened the bill with novelty danc- 
ing, causing himself to be well thought of, 
and Ralph Johnstone gave the best exhi- 
bition of trick bicycle riding ever seen in 
this country. His work is so good that 
any successful "copy" will be entitled to 
as much credit almost as the original. 
There is small danger, however. Mr. John- 
stone ought to give some attention to his 
apparatus. It could stand touching up. 

The trained animals, including a bull, of 
Mile. De Sarema, held the close attention 
of the house. Mile. De Sarema is prettily 
costumed and has a young girl assistant 
similarly attired. The bull especially evi- 
dences the patient labor spent, and the 
entire act ijs of a high grade of perfection 
in animal training. Three revolving 
tables and an "unridahle" donkey supply 
the corned V. 



PASTOR'S. 

For the first time in his vaudeville ca- 
reer Eddie Girard plays Pastor's this 
week. With Jessie Gardner, "Dooley and 
the Diamond." which carries both, is the 
hit of the show. The downtowners like 
Girard's Irishman and after you have 
seen the many grotesque and burlesque 
imitations that are given of the same 
character, in and out of vaudeville, you 
easily like Girard also. 

Holcombe, Curtis and company, Mr. and 
Mrs. Geo. W. Hussey, Carroll and Doyle 
and Annette Duval are under New Acts. 
Selbini and Grovini on bicvcles w«»re in 
the bill, and Lavine and Leonard, with the 
auto, pig, milk bottle and idiotic encore, 
also appeared. The porker is growing. 
It is the only indication of progress in the 
act. 

The Sharplies with some kind of music 
and better comedy are playing in the 
"two-a-day" division, an advancement 
since the last Pastor appearance, and the 
DeMutbs have a sketch setting for whirl- 
wind dancing. Miss DeMuth is dressed 
becomingly, and it is reported around the 
theatre that she has six or seven changes. 
Mr. DeMuth wears evening clothes and 
altogether the act has a presentable ap- 
pearance. Were it played in pantomime 



that illusion would cling, but when the 
woman says "you done" it's all off. 

Herbert Bert Lennon has hit upon u 
happy scheme in his impersonations. ■ Fa- 
vorites of the vaudeville stage are given. 
Junie McOee, Jimmie Russell and Billy 
Van are the subjects. James A. Hernc in 
"Shore Acres" is taken also by Mr. Len- 
non for the latitude it allows in the rural 
character. Mr. Lennon blacks up on the 
stage for Van, and the impersonation is 
well enough excepting for the material 
used. The talk was never good, even when 
Van himself told it first long years ago. 
He loses Van's voice at times. The Mc- 
Oee could be improved both in makeup 
and slang. The time given to each should 
be cut down and one or more other celebri- 
ties added. • 

Griff Willjams and Vanola Melburn have 
n new sketch called "Corker's Call" around 
their musical act. It is a good step for- 
ward. John C. Creighton as a clown with 
two roosters looked funny in the openin;; 
show. He aims for comedv and doesn't 
miss even when standing still. 



KEENEY'S. 

An animal act to close and open the 
bill at Keeney's Theatre in Brooklyn this 
week gave a soggy finish to it. Several 
numbers new around New York were seen 
for the first time. Hubert Wilke. .luh's 
Fiovy and Family, with Don Carlos and 
his dogs are under New Acts. 

Donat Bedini with a solitary canine 
opened the show. Mr. Bedini is a better 
acrobat than animal trainer, although the 
peculiarly marked mongrel lie now uses 
;ioe8 through the tricks well enough. 

A singing sketch continually changing 
is that ofGus Edwards' "Postal Telegraph 
Boys." It could not be in worse sha)>o 
than it is at present. All excepting 
(liarles Lewis as "Swifty" are new to the 
act. The singing is poor and the stage 
management execrable. A saddening 
youthful Hebrew comedian has been newlv 

• 

placed, and a "boy soprano" with an in- 
describable voice seeming to come from 
the roof of his head helps to miscrate 
;renorally. The songs are the same as 
used before they had outlived their popn 
larity. The uniforms with a few c\- 
ception.s have been neither restored to their 
original color nor new ones purchased. 
Never in the first class, the act is stcadilv 
falling backward. 

Chas. Ouyer and Nellie O'Neill arc 
pleasing the Bedford section mightily with 
their knockabout dance and Guycr's pan 
♦ ominie. 

After telling everything he knows .lor 
Flynn would continue without a stop did 
time permit. The trouble with Mr. Klynn 
is that he does not know when the audi- 
ence is satisfied. Did he drop the old 
^*tuff he is using, send a parody or two to 
pasture, and then condense what remained 
lie would have a good monologue. 

Ilnlicn and Ilaye.s talk and dan»«> in 
"one." Some of the talk they now have 
may have been new in the West when in- 
trodu(*ed, but it traveled from the East to 
get there. The comedian's makeup is bet- 
ter than his comedy, while the "feeder" 
is away off his feed as a "straight" man. 
The dancing is better. So much so that 
with songs and dances only perhaps the 
talk could be dispensed with altogether. 



VARIETY 



U 



Shows of the Week 



By Rush 



COLONIAL BELLES. 

Ju the billiag and playing of this 
('umpbell &, Drew offering prominence is 
given to the six comedians somewhat at 
the expense of chorus numbers. "Down on 
the Baby Farm" is the name of the open- 
ing piece. There is no attempt to deliver 
anything like a connected story, the time 
being given up for the most part to m 
succession of comedy bits by the com- 
edians, most of which are first rate. 
Charles Robinson, who gets semi-display 
type on the program, makes an exceed- 
ingly good German. He has most of this 
work here and does exceptionally well 
with it. His full, rich comedy dialect 
makes all his talk good whether it is 
tunny or not. Robinson displays consid- 
erable versatility, giving a tramp mono- 
logue in the olio and playing a Hebrew in 
the burlesque. Each is well done. 

Frank Milton does well as a "rube" 
sheriff, and L. A. Lawrence makes a bet- 
ter "straight" man than is usually seen in 
burlesque. The other comedians, Billy 
Cook, George Edwards and Goff Phillips, 
do only fairly with secondary parts. Rose 
Carlin, the soubrette, does rather well with 
a song or two, but displays no originality 
in dressing until she appears in the olio, 
her gown for the opening following the 
style of the familiar soubrette since the 
world began. Marie Richmond wears a 
black gown built for the graceful display 
of her ample curves, but otherwise figures 
rather incidentally in the proceedings. 

Miss Oarlin's olio offering consisted of 
a pretty brown costume, admirably set off 
by large fellow plumes in the hat. Her 
voice is pitched too high for the success; 
ful handling of "coon" songs, but is sweet 
in quality and agreeable for the most 
part. George Edwards as an Irishman 
carried the burden of a good laughing 
travesty sketch, helped out by Lawrence. 
One good bit was a burlesque with a tele- 
graph key. 

Robinson's monologue in text and man- 
ner of delivery is away from the usual olio 
monologue. All Robinson's lines are 
bright with a laugh tucked away in them 
and his makeup is in character without 
going to extreme of the grotesque. 

Frank Milton and the DeLong Sisters 
call their offering a "musical comedy" act. 
although the comedy was not perceptible. 
The work in the musical department 
passes. 

Charles Falke, with illustrated songs, 
has a good ballad singing voice and pret- 
tily colored slides. 

The burlesque introduced a greater va- 
riety of dressing by the chorus. Alto- 
gether the Campbell & Drew offering is up 
to standard in costuming and general 
character. With few exceptions it is clean 
and free from suggest! veness. Rush. 



COLONIAL. 



W. H. Thompson (New Acts) and Kar- 
no's "A Night in the Slums of London" 
furnish the novelty for this week's offer- 
ing at Mr. Williams' Broadway establish- 
ment. 

Delia Fox is liberally featured next to 
Mr. Thompson, and did very well with her 
audiences, particularly through the last 
song. Ned Wayburn's "Daisy Dancers," 
the renamed "Daisyland,** is given with 
Dorothy Jardon in her old place at the 



head of the act, backed up by six dancing 
girls. Miss Jardon carries the vocal bur- 
den of the piece with a strong voice of 
evident training, but the act seems to luck 
the snap and finish that mark the rest of 
the Wayburn offerings. 

The Artois Brothers have a good act in 
a field that is pretty well worked out. The 
strength of the offering is in the com- 
edian, who has a method suggesting with- 
out encroaching upon the work of James 
Rice. Several of his clowning tricks were 
good for a solid laugh. The "straight" 
man does a quantity of good work in 
straightaway bar feats. 

The Olympia Quartet are billed as giv- 
ing "their latest singing offering," for 
which reason perhaps they make it a 
point to sing as little as possible and fill 
out a fifteen minute occupancy of the 
stage with talk. The talk is funny in 
spots, but the audience would willingly 
have listened to more of the singing. 
Much of the uninteresting dialogue might 
be forgiven them in consideration of the 
fact that their buffoonery was away from 
the knockabout and that the comedian 
knows his business. All four men work 
in blackface wearing military uniforms 
and would do well with more negro num- 
bers. 

Les Brunins, "expert billiardists," have 
a layout of first-rate showy tricks with a 
good finish in which the woman circles the 
table on a bicycle with a revolver attached 
to her head, to be discharged by a rocket- 
ing billiard balL 

Walter Jones and Mabel Hite gave their 
eccentric comedy sketch with the usual 
effect, and Raymond and Caverly spun 
their twisted German dialect talk to a 
high percentage of laughs. The parodies 
are not as good as the text, which has a 
number of bright points. 

"A Night in the Slums of London" is 
much the best of the two pieces Fred 
Karno's newly arrived "speechless com- 
edians" have given us. The slapstick and 
rough clowning is admirably relieved by 
an interesting story of some dramatic 
value, and there are a number of good 
comedy bits. 



«t'i 



TWENTY-THIRD STREET. 

The first appearance in New York this 
season" of George Evans is made the oc- 
casion of a good deal of featuring in 
display type and street electrics. Evans is 
using a considerable amount of his old 
stuff, together with a bit of new talk and 
a "local" here and there. The monologue 
goes with the Evans smoothness even to a 
very expert bit of song "plugging" which 
carries its own excuse in the skillful way 
it is handled. 

Valerie Bergere comes back to the city 
in the pretty little sketch "His Japanese 
Wife," George Griswold's playlet, in which 
Miss Bergere so successfully returns to ki- 
mono and slanting eyebrows. What the 
sketch lack« in dramatic value as com- 
pared with "Mme. Butterfly" it makes up 
in dainty little comedy passages delivered 
with a good deal of cleverness by Miss 
Bergere. 

Jacob's dogfl opened the bill. Jacob 
would appear to have been playing in the 
tall grass and thereby beoome utterless 
careless in the matter of adorning his per- 
son with suitable raiment. His frock coat 
looks as though it had not seen iron or 



iiipuuge since Ja<x>b left New York, and 
that was many moons ago. The trappings 
aie not u whit better. Ue has an enter- 
taining act, too, and his carelessness is 
thereby made doubly inexcusable. 

The Sharpe Brothers did very well in 
the number two position with excellent 
dancing and Eddie Leonard dressing. The 
skillful use of the spot light helps their 
work not a little. 

Jennie Yeamaus rather missed her usual 
effect at the Monday matinee, although 
she worked with her wonted smoothness 
and confidence. Miss Yeamans has 
changed her specialty not at ail, and did 
she start with a better appeal to her audi- 
ence would establish friendly relations 
more completely. ■ 

Hyams and Mcintyre have not the knack~ 
of altering their offering much. Syllable 
for syllable it is the same as when first 
played. The answer is probably that the 
sketch as they have worked it out serves 
its purpose admirably. 

Radford and Winchester do well with 
comedy juggling and the O'Meers Sisters 
in a pretty dressing of rich brown won 
their way to popularity immediately. The 
Lasky-Rolfe "Immeusaphone" is seen here 
fur the first time. 



the Uiugiis. The pair will have to progrestt 
to win distinction. 

.Juisepli Carroll and Will J. Cooke did 
little better than fair with a talking act 
with parodies on the side. A good deal of 
the talk in the early part had a familiar 
ring to it, and in an effort to work up a 
bit of business involving a sheriff's visit 
to a saloon they bored by too much repeti- 
tion. The comedy man's beard looks very 
badly. The parodies were all new and 
vveul well, puitiuularly one bearing on poli- 
tics. The Levine-Cimeron Trio, with acro- 
batic and dancing offering, were also uu 
the bill. ,^ ■:_■•'■ •■.^•..•.. ':■■>■• ."; 



HYDE & BEHMAN'S. 

Edna Aug and Cinquevalli divide head- 
line honors. Miss Aug has at last given 
over her time-honored scrubwoman special- 
ty in favor of several character songs. 
These are good in Miss Aug's peculiar vein. 
There are three singing numbers, of which 
the first is much the best. The singer 
sometimes becomes confused in the han- 
dling of her dialect. Her talk is laugh- 
able for the most part and her gown looked 
very well. 

Cinquevalli returns to this side of the 
water with an unchanged act and the same 
comedy assistant. All his work has the 
distinctive mark of expertness and good 
showmanship. The comedy of the act is 
splendidly handled in a quiet way. 

Emil Huch and company show "Love's 
Young Dream," a comedy playlet, for the 
lirsl time (New Acts). The Hughes Musi- 
cal Trio opens the bill. The woman makes 
an excellent stage picture in a tasteful 
gown and is the only one of the three 
who appears to be at ease behind the foot- 
lights. Both men go through their work 
without a Hash of expression. The break- 
ing of a banjo string even failed to disturb 
the wooden fixity of one man's counte- 
nance. They go rather strong on theit 
brass numbers for those sitting down 
front. 

Artie Hall makes a mistake in attempt- 
ing to get away from straight "coon" 
shouting and buck dancing. She has a 
tjuantity of negro dialect talk interpolated 
ill one of her songs, in which the dialect 
«locf« not convince one as beinjr close to na- 
ture. and the talk is not too amusing. 
Miss Hall niiglit also wait until her final 
exit before removing her elbow glove to 
prove an alibi by n wliite arm. Her "coon" 
numbers were gofwl as long as she kept to 
the shouting and she uses taste in her cos- 
tuming. IJaymond Finlay and Jx)ttie 
I'.urke liold to a routine of talk and com- 
edy that suggests the team of the early 
variety days. There is liumor in both, but 
they nee<l t(» [uitch up the dialogue. Some 
burlesque and a touch of travesty brought 



KEITH'S. 

.:..The process of sitting through the Union 
Square bill this week is not unlike a ride 
through the Weehawken tunnel, i^etty 
much everybody plays lighting effects to 
win and the spotlight expert works over* 
time. 

Harndin's Electrical Ballet, renamed 
"Starlight," holds over for a second week 
without change. There is not a good 
dance in the whole proceeding and the 
mere act of watching blinking lights dis- 
posed about the persons of a score or so 
of half visible girls does not make absorb- 
ing entertainment. ....•.,.'.: 
' Hally and Mehan almost gain distinction 
in a dancing and singing blackface act. 
One of their stories is splendidly worked 
up to a climax, but falls down there. The 
straight man does an excellent dance and 
the comedian works with a good method. 

The Royal Musical Five were badly 
placed after Sue Smith and Paul Fisher 
(New Acts), a heavy musical offering, but 
were very well liked. 

The Tossing Austins in an early posi- 
tion won an amount of applause that is 
seldom accorded an act that works so 
early. Miss Austin has improved in her 
dancing and the comedy juggling of her 
Ittirtner carries the act nicely. Mr. Aus- 
tin might work up something better for 
an encore. 

Thomas Meegan and company pad out 
a lliinsy sketch with wild comedy situa- 
tions and talk in which there is no humor. 
There may be a spark of humor in Mr. 
Meegan, but William Wagner and Theo- 
tlora Dudley are utterly devoid of that 
gift. 

Mary Dupont has a sketch belonging 
in the same class, although she manages 
to get real laughs with her work. Her 
partner, Williard Hutchinson, gives evi- 
<lence of the need of training. 

Johnnie Johns with an old style black- 
face monologue did exceedingly well. It 
looked as though he would have to make 
a curbiin speech before they would let 
him go. Mathews and Ashley gave "A 
Smashiip in ('hinatown" without change 
except for a new parody on the political 
situation. 

Cooper and Robinson made their usual 
ten-strike. Robinson is one of the best 
colored comedians doing this sort of work, 
lie has a method all his own and both 
his dances and those of Ojjoper show top- 
notch ability. ' " 

Kimball and 1^'wis opened the show, 
followed by the Crotty Trio of singers 
and dancers, who suffer fr«)m liad dressing 
;ui<i arrangement. Voung Sandow and 
Lambert and Count DcBulz and Brother 
are under New Acts. 



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VARIETY 



CORRESPONDENCE 

THE BET TIME FOE BEHEAE8AL WILL BE 
FOUVD rOLLOWDTO K AME OF THEATRE. 



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AV8TBALIA. 

TlvoU. Syduey. Auk. It). 
Flnit appenrauce of O. O. SeymcMir and Maud 
Dupre, Ainerlcau eccentric artlatM. The new- 
corner* contribute a turu effervesreut with fun 
and are aa aprlgLtly aa any Anerican or l<:nKllHb 
team we bare bad. Vaaco, "tbe mud uiuhIcIhu." 
Kelly and Agnea, Alexander and Bertie. Baby 
Wataon. Usette Tarkea, Nita Leete. Maud Fan 
log, Arthur Elliott and Tom Dawiion ulw) ap- 
pear. 

Brlnn is tbe latest addition to tbe bill at tbe 
Opera Uouae, Melbourne. His heavy weight Jug- 
gling is nensatiooal. He is likely to draw crowds 
for some time. 



The sur at the Tivoll Is Ben Har, a noted 
wrestler. 



The Olaciariam, Melbourne, is lucresHlug in 
popularity. Tbe large ice rink presents an ani- 
inated picture at every seaaion. i.Cft akating ii_ 
tbe king of winter aporta here. 

Harry Rickards, tbe Australian manager, at 
preaent in London, ia keeping bla theatres here 
pretty well supplied with finit-claaa talent. Tbe 
following artlats have already been booked: The 
Moto Girl, Alf Chester, tbe Cabiacs, tbe Oxford 
and Cambridge Girla, Harry Bedford, Harry 
Tate's company, Larry Lewis, Violette Stockelle. 
Duncan and Godfrey, and tbe AlaHkaH. Alf 
Chester, comedian, and tbe Cabiacs have arrived 
and will open at tbe Tivoli. AugUHt 25. 

There are no less than fifty shows touring the 
provinces of New South Wales wbo«e principal at- 
traction ia moving pictures. 

Little Cliff harjual Cuiatted a six weeks sea- 
son at the Sydney Tivoli. 

I. C. Leete, general manager for Harry Rick- 
ards in Australia, will take a strong variety 
company to tour New Zealand early in October. 
The company will include Seymour and Dupre. 
Brlnn, Vaaco. Bertie and Alexandra, the Hart- 
leys and others. 

Annie Mayor made her reappearance in Sydney, 
after an absence of many years. The I'..laoe 
waa crowded. The success of her month's en- 
gagement is fully aaaured. 

Harry Rickarda haa leased the Palace Gardens, 
Perth. West Australia, so as to be in readiness 
for some of bis star artista expected to arrive 
from England and America. F. K. D. 



CHIOAOO. ILL. 

By FRAVK WIE8BER0. 

VARIETY'S Chioago Office, 
79 8. Clark Street. 

MAJESTIC (Lyman B. Glover, mgr. for Kohl A 
Castle. Monday rehearsal 9).— Tlie bill looks im- 
mense in front of tlie bouse. It is enticing enough 
to allure not only the regular patrons but others 
who psBs by casually. On Monday night Gardner 
and Revere were on about 7:46, when tbe largest 
portion of the audience was coming in. The act is 
too valuable to deserve the position and would 
have duplicated its previous success farther down 
tbe bill. Lina Pantier followed. She waa shifted 
from the third number before closing. Her ex- 
hibition on the wire is not extraordinary, but the 
audience waa Intereated. Virginia Earl and her 
"Johnnies" have the same act seen last season. 
Tbe Empire City Quartet came in for applause. 
Colonel Gaaton Bordeverry gives a remarkable ex- 
hibition of marksmanship. His equal has not been 
seen here. Felix, Barry and Barry in "The Boy 
Next Door" have about the same act seen before. 
Mains and Mazette In tbe familiar comedy acro- 
batic act created much laughter. Aricyra KaHtron 
ia an accomplished and charming violiniste. The 
Mnaical Avolos are familiar and Klein and Clifton 
were on too early. The Juggling Thorns show 
some good tricks and Douglas and Donglns bave a 
comedy acrobatic act that fared well considering 
the poaition. 

OLYMPIC (Abe Jacobs, mgr. for Kohl A Castle. 
Monday rehearsal 9). — There is one novelty act on 
the bill that has not been s»»en bore before. It is 
Patty Brothers, equilibrlstfr, In astounding feats 
of head balancing. Roae Cogblan presents "The 
Ace of Trumps," a dramatic sketch capably acted. 
Dillon Brothera have the same string of parodies 
and BImm, Bomm, Brrr again show fine costumes 
and accompllsbments in Instmmental musical nnm- 
bera. Trovollo haa a novel ventriloqnial act. The 
mechanical devices add strength and the talk is 
amart and breesy. Maud Rockwell is the sweetest 
singer heard in a long time. She ia possessed of 
a pure soprano voice of wide range and her singing 
is rare and a novelty in vaudeville. She looked 
charming in an exquisite gown and Gainsborough 
hat. Snarly and Lake started off with a song 
which indicated unwise Judgment, but they sur- 
prised the audience with some of the brightest 
talk heard in a long time. Joe (;olden gives a few 
imitations. The recitation is too long and should 
be eondensed. Donnelly and West have The mis- 
taken Impression that the light green spangled cos- 
tume worn by the woman Is conslstont with the 
idea of the aketch. It lessens the domestic value 
of the act. The man Is good in eccentric Irish 
character and sbonld adapt himself to relevant 
methods. Campbell and Brody, club swInKing and 
Juggling, are adroit in that line and the Onxos do 
contortions unlike many others. Pope and dog 
give an interesting exhibition and Grace Hoopes 
sings In a small but clear voice. 

HAYMARKRT (Wm. Newkirk, mgr. for Kohl A 
Castle. Monday rehearsal 9).— Bill this week: 
Amelia Snmmervllle. Klein, Ott Brothers and 
Nicholson. Coram. Macart's dogs and monkeys. 
Charles Semon, Bellclaire Brothers, Majestic Trio, 



Gartelle Brothers, Mr. and Mra. Ben Hunn, Nellie 
Revere, Brandt and Larano and George E. Austin. 

SID J. EUSON'h (Hid J. Kuaon, mgr.).— Rice 
and Barton are to be congratulated at least for 
their persistent endeavor to alioliab tbe objection- 
able slapstick devicea and contamination usually 
fumpusing tbe fundamental featurea in burleaque. 
The Rose Hill Folly company preaent in two acts 

The Royal Billy Goata." On tbe program it is 
i'Mlled "rauHlcal comedy." The lines are not par- 
ticularly bright and neither do they evince clever- 
n«>88 In construction, but serve the comedlanH to 
good advantage, (leorge W. Rice la tbe stalwart 
tlgure and bis dry and unassuming methotU pro- 
voked considerable laughter. T. T. Thomas bad 
trouble with bis voice and was caulU>u8. John E. 
Cain Is conspicuous in lx>tb acts. Idylla Vyner 
had little to do aside from appearing pleasantly. 
A few glrla in the chorus have good looks and 
Hcveral can sing and dance. Spanish and Mexican 
airs are favored and toward tbe finish an orieutal 
number is introduced, the girls wearing black 
gaur.e over the pink tight«<. Tbe dressing could 
\ye made more satlnfactory and effective. Patton 
nnd Van appear in the olio In a conied.r musical 
act. Both are good musicians. Blancbe Ncwcomb 
sings three songs. She should go In vaudeville. 
.Tnhn K. Cain is wasting talent in "The New- 
Boy," a comedy sketch, assisted by Harry Evans 
and two others. Mr. Cain la a g<H>d comedian and 
Hhoiild aecure another vehicle. He can do much 

FOLLY (J. A. FennessyT^gr^r^f Viillfo HarJT 
to locate a better looking, more prepossesning and 
diligent bunch of girls than the contingent that 
make up the feminine portion In "The High School 
iMrla" company. Tbe opening piece, written and 
Htaged by the Burke Brothers, who take the prin- 
cipal comedy roles, has no plot to be fathomeil 
but a lot of Innocuous dialogue of genuine humor. 
The closing burlesque shows a scene in the Philip- 
pine Islands. It is better than the first part and 
Burke's obstinate donkey plays a prominent think- 
ing and "kicking" part most aceptably. The com- 
i>any Is good and roles adequately handled by John 
F. Burke. Charles H. Burke, George Brennan. 
Madge Hughes. Alice Willard and Hilda Carle. 
Too much can not be said of the costuming. While 
nil the changet are not designed to show a stupen- 
dous expenditure, they are tasty, bi'iKlit and new. 
The olio contains four numbers. The Brennnns 
appear with a good parody and songs. The BIJou 
Comedy Four have good voices and aing harmoni- 
ously. While the comedy is agreeable they repeat 
too frequently. They have the making of a good 
comedy act. Willard and Hughes are two women; 
one enpcts a tongh character and the other poses 
in "straight" part. In spite of the fact that "per- 
sonal hints" and "kidding" have furnished numer- 
ous "sister acts" with material, these women are 
a departure In the manner they handle the talk 
and the act pleased. The feature Is Hilda Carle 
and twelve girls in cadet outfits In a series of 
military tactics, drills and wall scaling. The girls 
have been well trained. Miss Carle Is tall, stately 
nnd possesses a fine soprano voice. Tlie net is the 
Itest thing In the show, which as a whole fur- 
nishes superlative variety and offers good enter- 
tainment without approaching the more pretentious 
sphere of burlesque. 

TRtK'ADERO (I. M. Welnparden. mgr.).— The 
".Ter»ev LUllos" Is the attraction. Business large. 

NOTES.— Tlie airship "Driehopa." managed by 
Jas. ffchwartr,. Is having Its preliminary flight at 
Slonx Falls. S. P.. this week.— Fred Bndd. of Budd 
and Buddie, on account of sickness left for Ari- 
zona, where It Is said the climate will benefit him. 
-Walter Stanton. Jr.. and Bob Sandberg are 
joined as a team In a slngln? and danclne spe- 
cialty. -The "Yankee Doodle Girls" company have 
nrransred a w»>ek of one-night stands between Min- 
neapolis and Kansas City.— Harry L. Newman, 
formerly with the Victor Krenier company, this 
city, will branch out In the mn<»Ic publishing busi- 
ness on his own account. Mr. Newman Is a young 
man and the composer of a number of successful 
songs. H" will open In about two weeks. 



PITTSBURG. PA. 

By JAS. T. TYNDALL. 

VARIETY'S Pittsburg »)fflce. 
309 4th Ave.. Room 207. 

GRAND (Harry Davis, marr.) .— Houdlnl Is held 
over because of the thousands who were turned 
nway last week. The I>e Bmn Opera Trio. fine. 
The Three Donnls. herculean acrobatics, novel and 
pleased immensely. The Nichols Sisters, funny as 
ever, although a few new songs would Improve 
their act. liee Timg Foo. a genuine (Thlnese bari- 
tone, very good. I^ew Hawkins kept house In up- 
roar. .Tulinn Rose is among the best Ilebrew 
comedians. Carter and Waters gave an act end- 
liie^ In a general smash-up. Juliet Winston has a 
pretty face and well-trained voice. Glllett's anl- 
mals good. Lester and Quinn. excellent dancers. 
Ciinnlngham and Smith, acrobatics, good. Chellfo, 
clever. 

GAYETY (Jas. E. Orr. mgr.).— Bob Manches- 
ter's "Vanity Fair" playing to big houses. The 
opening btiries(|ue is followed by a strong olio 
headed by Hassen Ben All's tronpe of Arabs; 
Annie Arllne, a charming soubrette, In dainty 
songs and dances; Reed and Shaw, gymnastic ex- 
perts, who have a remarkable turn. Belle Wilton 
with a bevy of prettv chonis girls presents n 
tteaullfnl spectacle. "The Birth of the United 
States." Four Plttsbnrg negroes, the Wnnpdoodle 
F'our. have a really funny act and form one of 
the best quartets ever heard here In burlesque or 
higher-priced houses. The cast Includes .John Con- 
ley. Jack Sheppard. Ernest STiaw. Fred Reed. Belle 
Wilton, Ruth St. rialr, Annie Arllne and Julius 
Glenn. One of the best features of the bill Is a 
broadsword combat entitled "The English Mus- 
keteers." 

ACADEMY (Harry W. Williams, Jr.. mgr.).— 
Jimmy Weeden has brought H. W. and Sim WIll- 
Inms' "Imperial Burlesquers" to town this week 
nnd there Is something about the show the dyed- 
in-the-wool Academylte thoroughly enjoys. The 
oneiilne piece Is spicy and enjoyable. In the 
olio are ZImmer, comedy juggler, and Deon«o and 
McDonald, comedy coopers. Gray and Graham 
nlay brasses cleverly. Mnrphy and Magee, amus- 
ing conversation. Pauline Moran pleased snrt the 
bnrlewiup Is lively. The costuming and scenery 
are excellent. 



PHILADELPHIA. ' -^ 

By OEOROE M. YOTTNO (Khiks). 

KKlTil'S (II. T. Jordan, mgr. Monday rehear- 
Hal 9:30). — Fred Walton in tbe artistic pantomime 
sketch "Clssie's Dream" carried off the principal 
lionors of this week's bill, which Included a num- 
Iter of entertaining acts. Nothing <juite so good 
in silent comedy has been seen here and the set 
was a big hit. The girl playing "Cissie" is too 
big for the part and appears new. In "The Gems" 
l.<>ndon has sent us a neat act which is a slight 
novelty In the singing line. As in msny foreign 
acts, tlie comedy lacks color, and is lifeless. The 
dressing Is neat. The Baliers, another foreign 
act, new here, proved intereatlng by reason of 
some novel ucmlMitlc feats and band -balancing. 
Julia Itedmond and coui|>any presented "Too Much 
Married" for the first time here and met with fair 
succesa In a vehicle which shows only ordinary 
merit. Joseph Adelinann, tbe xylophonist, has 
added a partner to his act and tbe pair pleased. 
Elmi'r Tenley prefaced his familiar street car 
stories with a little that was new and repeated 
the hit made on his last visit. There was nothing 
new in "Paris" as given by Clayton White and 
Marie Stuart, excepting Miss Stuart's gown. 
Dave Nowllii offered a specialty which was net as 
giHxl as the last he did here. Besnab and Miller 
repeated their familiar act, the dancing being the 
feature. Clitte Berxac's ponies and the mnle 
amused as much as ever. Maybelle Meeker, the 
Arlington Four. (luertin and Lamb and Horace 
Wright were also on the bill. 

CASINO (Ellas A Koenlg, mgrs.).— The principal 
fault with the "Bowery Burlesquers" Is there is 
ti»o much goo4l material wasted during the action 
of "On the Bowery," "The Sculptor's Studio" and 
•Essex Market Police Ck>urt." The musical nnm- 
Iters and the efforts of the hard-working and good- 
looking chorus Is the only thing that saves the 
first part. Frank Taylor makes a poor Irish char- 
acter, but the other two members of the Farrell- 
Taylor Trio acquit themselves creditably. Miss 
Davenport looking and dressing well, while tbe 
<-orked cotne<llan wins all tbe laughs. Ben Jansen 
and Harry K«H'ler miss many opportunities. Listie 
Freligh is fcatjired and gets through her singing 
nunilters with apparent effort. She has some strik- 
ing costumes. Ida Bayton looked and acted a 
sprightly soubrette. while Flo Russell took things 
easy all through tbe show. The studio stnff is 
old and poorly worked and the "Police Court" is 
simply a revised version of "The Irish Justice." 
Jansen Is funny as the judge and there are some 
comical sltui'tlons with the jury, but tbe rest is 
weak. T*»^ FarrellTaylor Trio was the big bit 
among the numerous specialties, with Hill and 
Wi'son pleasing with their singing and dancing 
specialty. The majority of the musical numbers 
were cn^chv popular airs and well rendered. 

TROCADFRO (Fred WlUson. mgr.).— The "Jolly 
Grass Widows" paid their first visit, offering "The 
Frolicsome Widow" and "Are You a liObster?" 
Fulton nnd Hogan have put together a strong com- 
pany and the bill as a whole appeared to please 
tlie patrons of this house. There are many popu- 
lar n.uslcal numbers crowded Into both burlesques 
and the singing is fair. The chorus Is well 
dressed and there are some good stage effects. 
Ruth Everett and George Gnhl and Arthur Clam- 
age carry the bulk of the responsibility for the 
Imrlesjpie numbers In addition to appearing in the 
(»llo In a "mechanical doll" sketch which was well 
received. The olio furnished entertainment that 
was above the average. In addition to that given 
by the al»ovc-named trio there were Malda Dupree 
in a clever flnclng turn: Gmet and Grut In their 
familiar musical specialty; the Zarrow Trio in a 
comedv bicycle act and Gardner and Somers. who 
I'lso played musical Instruments, xylophone selec- 
tions being the feature. 

BIJOTT (William .Tennlngs. mgr.).— Miner's 
"Mrrrv Burlesouers." headed by Teddy Slraonds, 
Nettie Nelson. Ford and Dot West and with a big 
♦•ominny. furnished the week's entertainment, pre- 
senting "The Mummy Girl." a musical skit In 
(wo nets In which ponnlar musical numbers played 
the nrlnclnnl nart. There were several specialties 
Introilnced dtiring the action of tbe piece, a march 
by the Continental Guards headed by May Little 
iveing nn attractive closing number. Simonds and 
Warde. All, Hunter and All, Ott and Nelson and 
W. S. TTarvey and company made np the olio. 
Ford and Dot West add their share to the success 
of tl>e vaudeville portion of the entertainment. 

LYCEI'M M. G. .Termon, mgr.).— "Tnttl Fnitti" 
nnd "The Village by the Sea" are two lively bur- 
losqnes presented bv "Parisian Widows." Sam 
nro<>ks. Snitz Moore, Madge Coleman. Rose Jenn- 
et fe and others take care of the comedy portion 
of the program nnd there Is a big choms to help 
ont with the singing, of which there Is plenty. 
Brooks nnd .Teanette, Hickman nnd Coleman. Mc- 
r.\n\\\ and Smith and TiC flair and Hart appear In 
the olio, and there are numerous specialties intro- 
duced during the burlesque numbers. 



CINCINNATI. 0. 

By HARRY HESS. 

VARIETY'S Cincinnati Office. 
107 Bell Block. 

r'OM'MBIA (11. M. Zlegler. mgr. Sundav re 
benrfal 10:.'?o>.— This week's bill Is an Ideal one. 
Capacity business, Ilennlngs, I>ewls and Ilennlngs 
ill "Mixed Drinks." above the average for an 
opening act. A%'on Comedy Four in "The New- 
Teacher" have enough horseplay to get plenty of 
laughs. Caron and Herbert, acrobats, nice turn. 
Comedv too old to l»e good. Nick liong and Idalene 
Cotton In "My Wife's Diamonds" were one of 
tbe vaudeville hits of this season. Murray K. 
Hill, monologue, fair amount of funny stuff. 
Dlnus Troune. dancing novelty, also scored a 
big hit. Ilenrv liee In Impersonations, fine, 
nines and Remington In "The Manicure Girl," 
clever. Manning's Entertainers, excellent. Tliere 
are five people emploved, who work hard and 
make goo<l. Next week: Houdlnl. George *Vil- 
son. Cameron nnd Flanlgnn. Galettl's Monkeys. 
Marco Twins, n. P. Hamilton's "The Clirlstnias 
Gift." Charles Serrn and the Military Octette. 

STANDARD (Charles B. Arnold, 'mgr. ).— The 
"Dnintv Duchess." Ttie offering this week Is 
the "talk of the town." a real prl«e winner. It 
Is lively and borders on farce comedy situations. 
The chorus Is excellent, while the singing is de- 
Ilghtfnl. The bnrlesque is cleverly written and 



well played. Tbe entire show indies tes some 
thought having been given, and not a harried, 
Jumbled, thrown together nonsensical time con 
sumer as has been so frequent in Inirlesque 
shows. The olio is excellent. Next week: "Bou 
Tons." 

OLYMPIC (Daniel S. McCoj. mgr. Sunday re 
hearaais 10). — The bill this week Is the poorest 
of the season and is saved only l>ecauae of the 
two excellent turns of Karno's "Muming Birds" 
and Edward Keough and company in "A Bit of 
Blarney." Three Meers, wire artists, who open 
the bill, are fair; Rome. Mayo and Juliet in a 
minstrel turn, passable only; Adoipb V,\uk gives 
impersouationa. Tbe Great Carter, magician, has 
some elegant settings and bis act is made eu- 
joyable by his clever manipulationM. During tbe 
later part be Introduces Mrs. l*blllp Henrlci 
(Abigail Price), mental telepathist. Trixle Fri- 
gansa made her first vaudeville appearance In 
this city, but tbe act will hardly do. Misa Fri- 
ganza is clever, sings well and preseuts an ele- 
gantly dressetl turn. But It will never lie a 
headline act in its present shape. Burke and 
Dempsey sang several parodies in nice style. "A 
Night In an English Music Hall" is one of the 
greatest acts Cincinnati has ever witnesKed in a 
vaudeville theatre. It has been booked for the 
second week, breaking all local records. Next 
week: Robert Illlllard and compauy, Karno's 
company. Frank Cusbman, Gilday and Fox. Ed- 
ward Blondell and company, Daly's "Dixie 
Serenaders." and Byer and Herrmann. 

PEOPLE'S (James E. Fennessy. mgr.).-^=" 
"Merrymakers." One can hardly form an im- 
pression of this show, as tbe performance is 
"chopped up" In such a manner as to give time 
for the fight pictures which require four-fifths of 
the time. Tbe olio has Les Sprays, Australian 
whirlwind dancers: Jeanette Young, vocaliat; Nel- 
son, Mllledge and Strouse in "Simon the Butler." 
(Upper Comedv Four and Elton INdo Troujie. Next 
week: "Tbe Brigadiers" and Battling Nelson. 

NOTE.— Charles L. Doran haw l)een apiminteil 
press representative for the Anderson and Zlegler 
theatres. Mr. I>oraii has re<ently lM*en on the 
"Times-Star." where be made a brllllunt record. 



BOSTON, MASS. 

ORPHEUM (P. G. Williams, mgr.; David Rob- 
Insop, res. mgr.). — A great bill. Including Rranby 
Williams in character Impermmatlons from Dick- 
ens. Distinct and artistic bit. Foy and Clarke 
In "Tbe Modern Jonah," a clever satire evidently 
taken from "The Pearl and the Pumpkin." 
Woodward's seals. Elite Musical Four, Vlnie Daly. 
Julius Tamsen in Imitations, all good. Orpheua 
Comedy Four, Nettle Vesta and the Four Lukens 
make up a program which Boston hasn't seen tbe 
e(|ual of in years. Business big. 

KEITH'S (E. F. Albee. gen. mgr.).— Morris 
Oonin with his troupe of four Juggling club 
swingers are hendllners. A splendid act. Tbe re- 
mainder of the program Is made up by the Ellnore 
Sisters. Fields and Ward. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner 
Crane, Wylle's dog circus. Village Choir. Barry 
and Ilalvers, Fred and Pauly. the Burkes. Ger- 
trude (lebest, Pucella and Orben, Archer and 
Crocker and the KInetograph. 

PALACE. — Sam Scrlbner's Gay Masqueraders. 
Tills company presented one of the most enter- 
titlnlng shows ever given at this theatre. 

HOWARD. — The usual burlesque brightened up 
to date and following turns: Fltzglblxms, McCoy 
Trio. Golden Gate Quintet, Crane Brothers. Kelly 
and Adams, the Stanleys. 

LYCFHIM.— .Sam Scrllmer's "Gay Morning Glor- 
ies." Mnsic catchy, costumes handsome and a 
ver.v good show . 

COHMBIA.— "Ix)ndon Gaiety Girls," pieces 
fair and olio good. 

NOTES.— Bransby Williams was entertained last 
Tuesday by Union Club, one of the most exclu- 
sive In Boston. — Le Domino Rouge (La Belle 
Daale) will be tbe star offering at Percy Will- 
iams' Orpheum next week. This will be her first 
appearance in Bimton. Harry V<»kes and Mar- 
garet Daly Yokes, late Ward and Yokes, will 
also appear on tbe same bill. 

"THE ROUNDER." 



ALBANY. N. Y. 
PROCTOR'S (Howard Graham, res. mgr). - 
Week 8: Tbe Musical Cuttys are the feature of 
the bill, closely followed by the Howard Brothers, 
whose feat of thought transmission Is handled 
with rare skill; Mr. and Mrs. Allison In "Minnie 
from Minnesota," amused; Alf Grant and Ethel 
IIo<»g were very well received: Fields and Wooley 
took the house; Morton, Temple and Morton, song 
and dnnce net. good: Hayes and Johnson were en 

tertalning. Closed with good moving pictures. 

EMPIRE (Them. R. Henry, res. mgr.). —Bryant's 
Extravaganza Company is the offering, crowding 
this house to the doors; S. R. O. l>elng verv much 
In evidence. MARTEL. 



ALLENTOWN, PA. 
ORPHEUM (Sam Myers, mgr.).— Week S: .Tohn 
UCIaIr, comeily juggler, neat and very pleasing: 
Three Splllers. "musical bumi)ers" g»KMl and fair 
comedy; Franz Bbert and company, hit: J. Fran- 
<ls Do<»ley and dancing girls. giHxl; Howard and 
North, laughing hit; Mosher. Houghton and 
Mosher, very good. MACK. 



ALTOONA. PA. 

ELEVENTH AVENUE OPFRA HOUSE (I C. 
MIshler, mgr.).— Tlie High Flyers Burlesque Co.. 
S 9. (Jood performances. Tlie following vande- 
vllle specialties between acts pleased the patrons: 
H. C. Strickland. Mack and Dougal. The Great 
I^eftow. .Schuster and Barth. Winner and Eng 
lander. c. O. C. 



APPLETON. WIB. 

BIJOU (R. Ii(>ason. mgr. Monday rehearsal 
lt:4B). — Strong bills, headed bv Three Troubn 
dours. decided bit; Thomas and Williams, colored, 
very good; Clark Sisters, clever; Coates, muslcsl 
act. out of tbe ordinary and clever; Alice Saylor. 
illustrated songs; Juggling Burkes, great; Eva 
Perkins, singing cartoonist, very good; Ethel 



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VARIETY 



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(iilky. Hluger. hit. Mlm Ciliky being reqnected to 

renmln auother wefk. APrLKTON (J. A. 

Hawet, oigr.). — Wlualnger BruH. In rcpt>rtulre an*l 
vaudevlllt>, blggeat bit of aeaaon. Ttiuradav nlKix 

played to l,a07 paid admlaxloui*. NOTK. -The 

uiauagemvJit of BUou Theatre «-hangeil liandH. 
Cbct Scott, furinerly manager, la now lu the aut<»- . 
lunblle bualneaa, and R. I^aMon, preiiM agent for 
Ihf Rljon Amuaement Co., I.-^ now manager. 

tJKO. KOIILKR. 



■ BATTLE CEEEX, MICH. 

HI.lor TIIKATIlls: (W. 8. Knttertleld, UiKi'- 
Monday rehearanl lU:4t>>. — Kddie 8awyer. gyui- 
nuMt, good; Orville Pitcher, uiounhtgue. Une; Tlu* 
MiilroluiM, nuncdy Hketoh, good; i'landiuH and 
.Scurh't, banjoUtH. good; ChaH. 11. Duncan, ^uod. 

N. RITCHIE. 



BAY CITY, MICH. 
AIA'ARADO iSam Mark8. mgr.).— MamellleM, 
wtHiderful; Hill and Hill, eoIore<l. good; KuK^-ne 
O'Uonrke. lu "Parlor A"; Zay Holland, violinist, 
g«MMl; Sirronge, "The HandcuflT gueen," uiyatify- 
ing; Sidney Urant. nionologlst, gooil; O'Dell nnd 

Klnley, clever and well received. RIJOU (Dan 

IMImore. mgr.). — Hlnney and Chapman, comedlHua, 
K«mhI: Rockerway and Conway. Hketch, fair; 
I.a t^mipt, "Fire King"; the Little Jap Trio, 
ncrol>als, well received. DAVE A. LANDAU. 






BINOHAMTON. ir. TT 

ARMORY (11. H. Bailey, mgr. Rebearaal 10). 
-Week 8: Mile. Sotiaa and Harry Sloan scored hit 
with their clever alelght-of-hand; Black and Jones 
made good with their ainging and dancing; Almont 
un<l Dumunt received many encorea with their 
nuiaical turn; Harry Vokea and Margaret Daly 
V)»keM Mcored with comedy akit. "A Flat Mistake" : 
Mlaa Spuuldlng'a aoloa received many encores; the 
.\merieui* Comedy Four kept the honne In an up- 
roar with their traveaty "Waiting at the Church"; 
It4»wer8. Waltera and Crooker. the comedy acro- 
ImtH. do )i very r.niualng turn that receiver mucli 
iipplauMe. JOCiGERST. 

> BIBMINOHAM, ALA. 

(iAVKTY (E. A. McArdle, mgr. Monday re- 
liearMal 10). —"The World Beatera" in burleaqne 
wuM g«H)d. (fOod MMiga and pretty girla. In the 
olio: Holiannon an<l Corey, good; Hanaon and 
Drew, fair: N'Iblo and 8i)encer. fair; Warren and 
Bnx-kway t.Mtk the honae.— -MAJESTIC (F. IS. 
Parry. mgr. .Monday rebearaal 10). — Madame 
SlaitoffHkl. good; Jane Courthope and company, 
fair: The (Sreat Western, fair; John A. Weat tottk 
the honw; the Three Juggling Bonnana, hit. Com- 
ing for next week: Mr. and Mrs. Al Kelcey In 
their Hketoh. "Sister Mary from Tip|)erary"; Dol- 
lle Wella, the girl cartoonist; the Four Madcapa: 
Chaa. Iie<legar; Tony Ryder'a actor monkeya; Wella 
Hrolhera. instrumentaliata. 

NAT WILLIAMS. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 

.SHEA'S (M. Shea, mgr. Mcfnday rehearsal 10). 
-Week S: <;«NTge Fuller fJolden waa hendllner. 
well rerelve«l. "The Magpie and the Jay" waa the 
iHnghliig hit. 'ThelK*." a uiusIchI fantaav. w«h 
H4iniething new. The Meredith SlslerH, gO(Ml recep- 
tion; Nadja. a handsome wouuui acrobat, very 

• lever; Willie Zimmerman, pleased; the Baileys 
had appliiiise with their negro characters; Petro 
proved a clever trick monkey.— GARDEN (M. 
Shell, mgr. Monday rehearanl 10). — Lizzie N. Wil 
son. song and stories, hit. "Her Last Rehe-irsal" 
was written fi>r laughs. Rae and Brm'he. gcHwl; 
.Fohn R. Ilarty, Juggler, clever; Cartwell and Har 
ris an<l Peno and Attacco tilled «»ut. LYUH: 

• John Ijiughlin & I^ee Shubert, ragra.).— The aec- 
ond week of vaudeville waa excellent. La Fayette 
liad three nuinhers on the Mil and mystified his 
Mudlence. Fred NIblo. flfie: E<1 Hlundeli and com- 
pany In "The Ix>st Boy," pleasing; Josejihlne 
Colian (New Acts) waa amusing; Froslnl. fine; 

<;ernilnal. pleased. LAFAYETTE (('has. Bajtgs. 

local mgr. ). -"Tlie I^ud of Promise' prom 
Neil fun and gave It. 'Hie "Prondwav (Saletv 
«;irls" kept theirs, the Gaiety Boys helping out. 
Coming: Sam Devere'a company.— — lilNN'F? (Dr 
Mnn, mgr. ).— Week H: William and Pullmnn In a 
omedv turn, hit; Probasco. Juggler, good; Ilarrv 

Reed. goo<I. NOTES.— In all probability the «lte 

o<cupled bv the TIfft. which was destroyed by fire 
«',. will l>e' replaced by the Olvmplc Theatre Com 
pany with theatre and bualneaa block. It will 1k« 
used for vaudeville.— The two-year-old suit of the 
old Court Street Theatre against the Empire Clr 
cult Companv for $100,000 was on the docket of 
the Supreme' Court S. The claim Is cnusinu the 
«'ourt Street tb close for want of people.- Mike 
!^ea will manage the Garden Theatre, taking pos 
session K. It will be a ten, twenty and thirty, and 
the aame policy of putting on a flrat class show- 
that made the reaort so popular under Shea's for 
mer management. DIXSON. 



CLEVELAND, 0. 
LYRIC (C. H. Peckham. mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 11). -Week 8: Pat Rooney and Marlon 
Bent made a decided hit. Jewell's Manikins 
pleased the children; DIericks Brothers, weight 
lifting, excellent: Cecilia Weston, character art- 
ist, fair; Gllday and Fox, Hebrew comedians, fair: 
Frank Cushman. minstrel man. good; Musical 
Hearts, fair; Madge Maltland, comedienne, goml 
line of talk; Master Cummlngs. Illustrated songs. 

concluded the bill. KEITH'S? (H. A. Dnnlels. 

mgr.).— Week R: Fred Ray and company. Roman 
travesty, lanrbnble; Fred Edwards and May 
IMmiln" In the sketch "The Bachelor's I>ream." 
jrond: the Foiir Harveys. wire walkers, excellen*: 
Nora Seymour won f««vor with her singing; Murphy 
and Andrews, vocalists, fair. Others on the bill 
were Navaro and Mareena, acrobats; Ray Cox. 
comedienne, and Cameron Sisters, banio players. 

entertaining. STAR (Drew & Campls-ll. mgrs. 

Mondav rehearsal 11).— Week 8: "The Americans ' 
In a two-act bnrletta. "Mixed Pickles." full of 
fun and good mnsic, costumed: Jolly Zeb and the 
Six Zlg Zag Girls are amusing; the Breakaway 
Barlows, clever aerial act; aark, Hlgglni and 



Bergman, aiugera and daucera. good; Marie Stuart 

Douu, violinist, well received. EMPIRE (Chaa. 

Dexinger, mgc. Monday rehearsal 11).— Week H: 
Rice and Barton Extravaganza company, amusing. 
In the olio Bert Baker, vocalist, fair. 

WALTER D. HOI^H)MB. 



DALLAS, TEXAS. 

MAJESTIC (B. S. Muckeufusa, mgr. .Monday 
rehearsal 10 1. -The headlinera this week are Ben 
.M. Jerome's "l.*dy Buccaneera"; this Ih their 
second week In thia playlet and they uiude a de- 
cided siicceKM. Will H. Fox, a comedian of talent; 
Murilnl and Maxumllliau, llluaioniata. were ex- 
ceUenl; Geo. .\. Beane and KMIth Forest are ttotb 
very clever; the Haws Sisters proveti them'^elves 
capable singers and danceia and scored; .\ugust 
.Snowball Is a monoh>giat of exceptional talent. 

MAJE5?riC (B. S. Muckenfuss, mgr. Monday 
reh«>Mrsal 9). — Sanaone and Delia headlinera week 
2. well rtieeived. Clemenau Bros., musical acro- 
bats, decided novelty and made the hit; Walter 
WaNliburn and company creditable; Ed Lavlne, 
premier entertainer; Arthur Stuart and the Keeley 

Slaters, many encores; taniiy Frankel. NOTF^ 

- -Hagenbeck's Circus showed here I. Many came 
away very much dls8atlstle<l with the show and 
s«'atlng arrangements. If this circus would give 
ni«»re time to cecnring more goo<l acta and comije- 
tent ushers and less time to lighting other circuaea 
the people would be better satistle<l and it would 
do more bnslness. E. A. A. 



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DAVEHPOBT. ZA. 
FAMILY (Wellington Martin, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal »:3CM. -Geer, Roman rings. go<Hl; Miss 
»;ra«-e Orm«md. comedienne, gisKl; The Bo«)fa. 
come«ly sketch. g<M>d; Kathryn .Martyn. Illustrated 
songs," gon.l: 1^ Vere and Marsden. "sister act." 

ginsi: .\metii, novelty mirror danci's, hit. 

VAA'IK (Chas. Berkell. mgr, Monday rehearsal 
111. -Week 8-11: Doughitt and Jones, travesty, 
>i.MHi; Ruf and Cuslck. grotesque. g»KKl; The Zolas. 
•sister act." g«s>d; Marcell and I>Minett, iiorlzon- 
tul bars, good: .Mct'loud and Mellvllle. h.uplsis; 
Wl'.llanisun and (}lll»ert. comedy sketch: Murniy 
Sisters, singing; Seymour's dogs: Lena Kline, II 

lustrat.Hl s«mgs. GRAND Ol'KRA HOlSE (Otto 

Pattlujr. mgr. >. —Week 8: Anna Eva Fay in "Som- 
nolencv"; Emelle Benner. female baritone. g«s»u, 
Phil. Staats, monologue, good; Jackaon and Hoon, 
good. LKB B- GRABBE. 



DE8 MOINES. lA. 
K.MI'lUi: <M. J. Karger. mgr. Monday ^ehear^al 
111. Kr:ink Miwtyn Kelley and E. 
amusing sketch. "Tcun an<l Jerry." 
hhsHl Corson scored heavily; 
)i sensathtnnl ldcv<-le act 
well received; The 
Daniele 
Tlieiitre 



II. Calvert in 

' Cora Young 

'ilie Hoffmans offer 

The Red (Jlrl" wa^ 

Illrshhorns. gmwl; Burgess 

and Burgess ch>sed. NOTE. -Browns 

at Waterloo. Iowa, was completely de 
stroved by Are (K>tol»er 0. The loss Is estimated 
at «.%0.(XM1, with an insurance of $20.(MM». 

H. V. RE.WIU 



scenery 

The olio Is 

Brothers In 

(Jos. Malt 

—Week 8: 



DULUTH. MINN. 
METROPOLITAN tW. II. Longstreet. mgr. 
.Monday rehearsal 11). Week 7: ".Merry Maid 
ens." Very g^ssl show headed by Sam Riee. who 
Is futmv and kept the house In a continual up 
roar Ric«' Is supporte«l by a k^mhI compHiiy. 
espe.tally Edyth Murray and PattI Carney, whose 
sinking and dancing are excellent. The 
and costumes are «l)ove the average, 
a g«¥sl one. headed by the Ferrel 
clever bicytle act, big hit. BMOl' 
land. niyr. M.aiilay rehearsal 2t 
lienioiii and Grn.eta. novelty acrobats, big bit: 
•|uls:«. llghtninn changes, flue; Neola. Juggler. 
U«M.d: KItzlMU'h and B.ssle Lee. lUush.n. cleverly 
done. Reiitfrow and .lansen. comedy sketcli. g<M>d . 
.link or.Hile. Illustrnted songs. tf«Mtd 

EA8T0N, PA. 
LYRIC (Reiilnger & Brown, props. Monday re- 
hearsil lOiMOi. — Week 8: Amos, c.imedy Jnpffler. 
gcsHl: Hathaway and Slegrl. comedy sketch, "Hotel 
Bluff ■■ fair; Helen Bertram and c(mipany In their 
musical comedv scored: Tom Ripley, the minstrel 
<omedl:in well received; Viola and Engel. clever 
:,crobats. ABIE OPER.\ HOlSE (W. K Det 

wilier mgr.K -Week 8: Mamie Fleming .ind com- 
panv between the acts: Franklin an.l llttl- Edn:« 
Gran v Miss Fleming, the Two Musical .M.M.archs 
hitrcMluclog a novelty, the mu«-lcal rattles and 
To)nmv Sfnyder. the whistler. >L\« . 



ELKHART. IND. 
CRYST.VL (.lohn H. Amnions. Kcn. mgr.: George 
W I^wrle, res. mgr. Moiidny reUearsal 10)^— 
Week 8: I/wm aiul Adeline and Fairy Plumb, big 
hits. Flora McGowan. exceptl.mally go<»d; Lliidlej 
ami Bell, fair. ^- '^' "• , 



ERIE, PA. 

N E W M .X I ES r I C ( I ' ni n k .M 
Week 8. Fgan and B- ron. 
Grace Cameron, excellent : 
presented three play 1. Is 
pleased: La Dent. JuKU'ler. 
ers. g(»od: Jolin Walsh. 
Ritchie Trio, goo^l. 



Clark, inirr.).— 

l-eaillliiers, went big. 

Powllng and DavN 

during the week and 

cWvcr: Bell Trio, sing- 

comedian, poocl: Barls-r 

L. T. BERLINER. 



FINDLAY. 0. 
MVRVIN (L. H. Cunningham, nigr.). Week 8: 
lie Mdeans. acrobats, favorable: The Gordons, 
cycling, fair; Olney and Cunningham, come.llennes. 
gno.1- Louise .Adams, vlollidste, well liked.— --- 
CRXND (Harrv H. Lamont. mgr.).— .Tohn H. 
Nntha. Sanders and .Sanders and Captain Sidney 
llinnian. 



S.\M. 



FORT WAYNE. IND. 

TE.MPLE (F. E. f?tond<T. mjrr. Mondav re 
henrsjil 10).--We<'k 8: Jnlle Mnrle Taylor (New 
.\cts1: T«»nnls Trio, very u'ood: Ijenn Davenport, 
jrood: Wells and Sells, fliie: Howley and Leslie, 
excellent. DeWITTE. 



OALE8BUBO, ILL. 
GAIETY (J. H. Holmes, mgr. Mondav rehearsal 
»:30).— Week 8: McGee and Collins, sketch, fair; 
Pauline DeVere. singer and dancer, good; (ieorge 
.Mundweiler, Illustrated songs, excellent; The <Jrlf- 
tltha. fancy ride shooting, hit; Excella. contortion- 
ist, fair; Mae and Fred Waddell, comedy club 
Jugglers, big hit. -BIJOU (F. E. Pay den, mgr.).— 
Week 8: Beauchamp, acrobat, fair; Zanfretta and 
.Manstiidd, aketch. g(K>d; Hatch Brothers, musical, 
hit: Dick Miller, good; Frank Malloy. Illustrated 
songs, good. ... F. E. R. 

OOSHEN, IND. 
IRWIN (.Kmmons & DuBols. mgrs. Monday re- 
hearsal 10).— Week 8: Harry Newman, fair; Haley 
and llarty. comedy sketch, ordinary; Henry Rob- 
erta and company, animals, bit. 

W. V. FRICK. 








:: GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. "; 

<;RAND OPERA HOUSE (L Newiomb. res. 
mgr.). — Week 8: Hal Davis and Inez Macauly 
in "Tlie Unexpected." hit; Delight Barach la 
the best singer heard <m this stage In many a 
day; The ^lu8lcal (ioolnians stHMi here l>efore, 
pleased: nothing new; liuy Johnson, descriptive 
vtH-allst, pleasing: Auer and De«>nzo, novelty; 
Herbert and Willing, blackface, old favorites, 
have Improved; Frank and Bob, neat acrobatic 
act. Next week: Ttie (ireat FYancellas, Bell 

.■Bayj<!,.--TrjOt Helena Fredericks and others. 

*NTFrR:^^'flie local io«lge of Elks attended Tiieis-- 
day evening to witness Hal Davla'a sket«'h "The 
Une\|>ect«Ml." He is a memlter of the local 
bslge. : C. H. HALLMAN. 






HARTFORD, CONN. 

POLIS (Louis E. Kllby. mgr.).— Week 8; The 
r iral comedy "Thanksgiving Day" by Barrows- 
I ancaster compatiy was excellent. Powell-('ottrell 
Troupe, fine; the Columbia Four cond)lned ex- 
telbnt singing with gcMNl comedy, furnishing an 
attractive immber; the Latells. nindde gymnasts, 
macefnl work; the Colby Family, presenting "At 
Home" were recalled a number of times at all per- 
forimmces; (julnlan and Mack In "The Travelling 
Dentist" very funny. 

WILLIAM H. RTIODE.S. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 

GRAND (JPERA Hor.<l<: (Shafer Zbgler, mgr.). 

Hie bill proved to Ije (uie of the best the season 
has so far had to offer. The Military Octet and 
•The Girl with the Baton" offers gmnl entertain- 
ment. Camenm and Flanagan, who were remem- 
iK'red here simply as song and dunce comedians, 
put on an excellent little farce which more than 
ple.ised. The Marco Twins a|ip''Hred In their non- 
sensical s|s'clalty. (Jeorge Wilson, the veteran 
minstrel, offered a >ri>o<l monologue, and the re- 
lealnlng acts were Galettl's ]H>rformlng monkeys: 
i'alfrey ami Ibwder In a go«id comedy cycle ;tct ; 
Charles Serra. a good gymnast, and (Jeorge K. 
S|K>or*a conipanv of five players In the (me-act 
.'rauia. "The Christmas (;ift." - EMPIRE (Chas. 
Zimmerman, mgr.). The "Jolly (Mrls Burle,s(iuers" 
belli the stage at (his house for the week, with 

Kd">end Havs, "The Wise Guy." as the star. 

G.XYETY (Edward Shayne. mgr.).— Phil Sheri- 
dan's "Citv Snorts." with Battling Nelson as an 
e.lded nftrnctlon. the first half <»f the week, and 
I lie "Bon Ton Bnrlesuners" proved gmsl drawing 
, ..,t the 'after half. Both shows worth while.- — 
NOTE. Helen Duane. who played the leading 
feminine r<de In thv sket<h "The Christmas Gift." 
Is nn IndlnuMoolls girl and renewed old frletidshlps 
while In the city. LOUIS WESLYN. 



JACKSON, MICH. 

Bl.inU (E J Cox. nmr.t. -Week 8: Swor and 
\Vc.;tliro<ik. singers and datwers. gfssl: Marie ami 
Charles Heclow. e«'centrlc c<miedlans, well re- 
ceived; Florence Fitch. Illustrated songs, pleaslntr: 
Y Tke Heriiert Trio, acrobatic comedy act, woimd 

ii(> a jrnnd bl'l. NOTE. E. J. Cox has succeeded 

Clarenf-e E, I/huuIs as local miinager. 

E. A. WEUNEU. 



JERSEY CITY, N. J. 
BON-TON (T. W. DInkliis. mgr.). Week «: 
To fair business. "New ("enturv Girls" In opt-n 
iiig bnrles«pie "The French Bull." In the olio: 
Mildred Viilniore In songs seemed to ith'ase: Frank 
Hayes and Carrie L. Wlnchell; In this act the 
antilence seemed to come only f«>r Hayes' playing 
ton j>inn'>> nml he ri-celved sevn entores; Tom 
Bnrreft and May Belle did well; The Great Bnr 
(ells (three men), acrobats, the Hoinersanlt frrnn 
high f>edestal while on and with bicycle to stage 
ncide a hit; Nellie Svlvrster sani: three sonirs. 
Next week: "The Colonial Belles." PETE. 



JOLIET. ILL. 
GIC.\.\D I L. M. (JoMlKTg. niKr. Monday re- 
liearsal 2). Week 8; The Baader Lavllle Troupe, 
skillful acrobatic c\ «le act; Jlinmie Lucas jdeases 
with eccentrh- ••oniflv ; Thr***' Polrlers. gissl aerial 
turn; The Musical Pierce^, well liked; Carr and 
Foster. Hebrew comedians, and Otto Plillllps In 
"iongs also. A . .1 . STl^N l''NS. 



KANSAS CITY. MO. 
OUPHEUM tMartin Beck. ueii. ingr > Week ": 
Wilfrnl Clarke and company have Interesting 
"-ketch which pleased. Ida O'Dny Is pretty yonne 
woman who plays well on a banjo. Mr. and Mrs. 
F'/«lward H. Kemp lntro«lnce a novelty wherein 
Mrs. Kemp ttives a bcture on tlie (Jreat Amerl- 
r-in Desert and Indian life, accompnided by lieaull 
fill views In colors. Terley glv«'S presentments of 
noted personages In a way which pleased. "Mo- 
toring" took well with the audiences. Tlie Ca- 
ndlle Comedy Two khvo h h'>rl'/.ontal bar act which 

xvent well. Th.- Cxmara Sisters, good. MAJES 

TIC (A. G. Davidson, mgr.). — The "Knickerbocker 
Burlesfpiers." Big go with audience. In (he olio 
are Jack Jennings and Bob Jewell. German come- 
dians; Christy, a Juggler, and Flo Ellott and Bess 



Neff in a funny sketch. The Five Peschkoffs are 
sensath)nai RiiHslan dancers. W«*ek 14: Rose Sy- 
ihdl'a "London Belles." CENTURY (Joaeph R. 
Donegan, mgr. i. -Week 7: This theatre baa orUl 
iial «:una-Nelsou tight pietun>H. .\n amusing bnr- 
letta l8 given. In (lie olio are Daly, "the mad- 
man '; Cunningham and Coveny, black and white 
face; Six Dancing Girls from Wintergarten of Ber- 
lin; Vlnle Henshaw and G<H»rgle Franslolo give 
"Sci'iies Behliul the Scenes. '• Week 14: 'Cherry 
BlossoniH. • FAIRPLAY. 



LANCASTER, PA. 

FAMILY (Edward Mozart, gen. mgr. Monday 
rehearsal lO). -Week 8: Green Brothers, excel- 
lent, novel act; Bryant and Savllle, one of tin- 
best musical acta of the season; the Brobst Trio, 
fair; Marlow, Plunkett and company, great com»Mly 
act; W«s( and Kennette. fair; Harry Green, illus- 
trated songs. Business excellent. 

R. E. ALRXANDEK. 



LONDON, CAM. 
BENNETTS (C. W. Bennett, mgr.).— Week 8: 
Demonio anil p.elle, contortions, hit; Margaret 
Wild* ami J. Waldo Connelly, good singing and 
(lever pianist; Whittle, TentrlltHiulst. far alsivc 
avera^'c; the Five Cobtmblans. pretty and fdeas- 
Im:: May Duryea and Chaa. Deland In "Tl)e Ini- 
IMistor. " a snaiipy playlet: Al Lawrence, mimetic,: 

>.r<>od; D<»herty's jjoiMlles, trained dogs, clever. 

GRAND OPERA HOUSE (J. Stewart, mgr.).— 
.'i (V: Kennedy and gnantrelll. Jugglers. goo«I; \jr\m- 
mil and Cane, pleasing; the Sliarjdles. musical duo. 
g<aHl: Madge P. Maltland, singing, hit; Ilelene 
Glrard. eipiestrienne. pleased greatly; (liarlotte 
Townsend and company, "Elsl«»'s Mistake." p»K»d. 

FRED D. HITBSTON. 



LOUISVILLE. KY. 
IKH'KINS' tW. M. Rlechman. res mgr). - 
Week 7: Dan Burke and his SchrM>| Glrla are 
hcadllners. Tlieir singing and dancing nre eii- 
celleiW. giniker City guartet are t(s> well known 
to need much mention. Tiielr singing ami comedy 
work Is very u<M)d. Harry Jackson's laiiglilng 
success. ■Ilh Day Off." Is a very laiiulialde 
sketch. The Itosalres. refined 
reiiil«'r some vi'ry clever tight 
wire work; Paul Barnes, a very 
Ills monologue; Alice I/4'wls. 
Maklnurl. wizard of (he violin, 
classical [»le<'es ver> cre<lltably. 

CHAS. 



novelty artists. 
wire and slack 

funny fellow In 
giMMl : Frederick 

renders several 



SYLVESTER. 



LYNN. MASS. 

\( IMTOUIU.M (Harry Katzes. miir Monday re- 
ln'itisal I0(. Pleasing bill 8. Harry Corson ciarke 
in "Strategy" se«tred heavily; Brown. Harris and 
Brown, 'jfKMl; Will Archie, midifet comedian, t«M>k 
\\^^\•. Doherty Sisters, well liked; Nevlns an«l 
.Vriiold. siiipcrs and dancers, gOfMl; Holeman Broth- 
ers, triple bar acts, good Impression. NOTE. — 

Dome, clay mrsleller. although billed, failed to ap- 
(ii-ar. He was repl.need by Wlncherman's bears 
and monkeys, which arrived In time to aptM-ar at 
(he Tneaday raatlne<., DA YD CHASE. 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
GUANO (W. J. (Jreug. mgr.). Week 8; Oraxl 
sIkiw. .Musical Gerald, grsid; Klmliall Brothers, 
sinking and talLIng comedians. giMul; Conlon and 
Hastings, musical comedy sketcli. giK»'l; the Rls- 
le.\ s. acrobats, snlciidid: Ma Ilowell. vm-allst, 
KismI. CRYSTAL (F. Winter, mgr.). -F1n« 

show. Musical Forrests. musical, very gissl; .Mr. 
and .Mrs. Got (lot) and cointiany. sketch, line; Bell 
B<»v Trio, fair; Mevican Ziimora Family, fine. - - 
STAB (Frank Trottmaii. nii;r.i "Vankti' IVkmIIc 
Girls.' k<smI entertainment. Olio Is exii'llent. 
Keely and McDevit). rlevcr eccentric daiicinic: 
Cian«''s legerdemain. wi-II don»': .lames and Davl-. 
excelh-nt: <'ii;inln!.'. il'c jail f.rfaker tine VXw 
two litil lesipirv lire 'itvA. !'• II l'.l!M»r.lt. 



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Tht Chas. K. Harris Courier 

Devoted to the interests of Songs and Singers. 

AddreM all communlcKtloni to 

0HA8. K. HARRIS, 81 W. Slit St., N. Y. 

(Meyer Cohen, Mgr.) 



Vol. 3. 



Npw York, Oct. 18, 1»06. 



No. «. 



MlM QlorU Dare, who 
baa been creating a 
aenaatlon In and 
around New York not 
alone with ber alng- 
Ing bat alao wltb ber 
marrelloas piano play- 
ing, will sing "Some- 
wbere" at the New 
York Theatre Sunday 
eTenlng, October 14tb, 
by apeclal requeat. 
MlM Dare aays: 
" 'Somewhere' la the 
only ballad worth alng- 
lag in New York to- 
diy, at it cootalna 
everything ncceaaary 
with which a Tocaliat 
may make a aucceaa." 

Wilbor Held reporta auc- 

--cca» with **Jaat One 

Word of Cooaolatloo" 

and "Somewhere." 



Marie Laurent, the 
very clever aoprano 
who la in great de- 
mand for Sunday con- 
certa, la meeting with 
Bucceaa a 1 n g i n g 
"bomawhera" and 
"Juat One Word of 
Conaolation." and will 
Introduce "And a Lit- 
tle Child BbaU Lead 
Them." Buater Brown 
Quartet la making a 
featara of "S<Nne- 
where." The Victoria 
Ladlea' Quartet, an 
uuuHUally clever bunch 
of ladlea, harmonise 
"Somewhere" and 
"Dreaming. Lore of 
Yoo," in a» manner 
that b r 1 D g • XortJi 
rounda of applause at 
each performance. 



the Creaay pUylet "Car Two, SUteroom Ona." 
Thia la the beat aketch aeen here aince "Jockey 
Jouea." iiayward, Conroy and Hay ward, thoogb 
badly placed, made good^ Bernlce and Boy offer a 
cltiTer blnging apeclalty, but the boy abouUI abolish 
the cap Uurlug tbe bulditrr song; ZUtka aud king 
itcored wlib tLelr familiar magical act, the come- 
tliau working overtime; McWattera and Tyaon 
made a decided hit wltb a potpourri of aouga and 
Imltatloua; Smlib aud Campbell, two ordinary 
com<>dlaus, failed tu make a good Impreaaion; Car- 
lisle's doga and ponies closed. NUTES. — A new 

electric tbeatre has been opened In Canal atreet. — 
Mrs. UlUette, au e<iuestrleuue with the Baruum * 
lialley circus, fell and was severely hurt. — "Bache- 
lor Belles" failed to arrive in time for the Sunday 
matinee aud $550 was refunded, the house having 
been sold out. U. M. SAMUKLS. 



rATE&aOH. N. J. 



KMl'lUE (A. M. Uruggemauu, mgr. Uebearsal 
9). — Week 7: Paplnta, hit; Fraucesca ileddlng 
aud compauy, scored; Uoward aud Howard, blg- 
geat laugblug bit this seaaon; Kittle Uooney, 
comedienue, good; Dolp and b'usie Levlno, crayon 
sketching, very good; Adams aud Drew, fair; 
hills Nowlau Trio, acrobats, scored; Defaye Sis- 
ters, miiHical act. well dressed and fair mu- 
sidanH. -r FITZGERALD. 



JPOUOHXEHPfilE, M. X,. 



cycle act; Billy Van, usual success; Roattlno and 
Stevena, pretty protean act; Eqkboff aud Uordon, 
musical act, makes good largely through Eck 
lioff's clarionet work. CUAPIN. 



MOlTTailAL, CAN. 

&1UUMBB PARK (Lavigne A. Lajole, mgra.).— 
The cool weather baa been met by the manage- 
ment by the usual "closing in" for winter shows. 

7 saw splendid bill. THEATRE ROYAL (H. C. 

Bgerton, mgr. Monday rehearsal 10). — Week 8: 
"Mitt New York Jr." EzccUcut chorus, smartly 

dressed. comedy great. NOTES.— Numeroua 

"live-cent picture halla" have opened and more 
on the way. llie success of Ouimetescope has had 
its results. One enterprising candy man serves 
ten cent Ice cream wltb fifteen mlnates of pictures 
on the aide. AL M. PRENTISS. 



MTTHCIE, DTD. 

STAB (Ray Andrews, mgr.).— Week 8: Delno, 
eccentric Juggling comedian, very good; Gardner. 
West and "Sunshine." comedy sketch. Introducing 
Sunshine, the Cuban pickaninny, received ap- 
plause; Mrs. Frank Gray, illustrated songs, good; 
Zola Cotton, mystic, in mental telepathy was well 
received; Marie . Snowden, alngiug aud dancing 
aoabrette, waa fair. GEO. PIFSR. 



VZWABX. V. J. 

PROCTOR'S (R. L. Stewart, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 9).— Toby Claude introduced several musi- 
cal numbers Id her own way and won applause. 
The Ooloulal Septet, musiciaoa, one of the hlta of 
the bill; Sleedes, Engllab pautomimist. In "The 
Myaterlous Hotel" caused merriment and wonder; 
Holden, the magician, a topliner in the alelgbt- 
of-hand claaa; Nat Haines always has them going 
beret Wiilard Slmms and company have a laugh- 
able sketch; Fitagerald and Gilday. parodists, have 
some new ones; Kockiey Brothers, acrobats, good. 

WALDMANN'S OPERA HOLSB (W. S. Clark, 

mgr.).— Week 8; Clark'a "Runaway Girls" com- 
pany liad a very good ahow. with funny comedlana 
and pretty girls. Next week: Rentx-Santley com- 
P««J. JOB O'BRYAN. 



HEW BEDFORD, MASS. 
HATHAWAY'S (T. B. Baylies, mgr.).— Big 
booses this week. Feature act la Charlotte Par- 
ry's excellently done protean sketch, "The Com- 
stock Mystery." The Six Samois. Arabian acro- 
bata, good tumbling and balancing; White and 
Slmmona evoke acraama in their blackface act; 
Japlter Brothers, cabinet work, received with in- 
terest; Lawson and Namon, comedy cycling and 
bag punching, old act but good; Cora Gray, sing- 
ing comedienne, and James F. MacDonald, songs 
and monologue, fair. KNOT. 



NEW HAYEK, CONN. 
POLI'S (S. Z. Poll, prop.; F. J. Wlndlsch, res. 
mgr. Rebearaal 10).— Week 8: Mabel McKlnley. 
enthusiastically received; Ryan- Richfield company 
created a furore of fun with "Mag Haggerty's Re- 
ception"; Charles and Fanny Van in singing and 
talking were good; The Mosarts in "A Cobbler's 
Dream" aatisfled; Dorsch and Russell entertained; 
Irving Jouea, original; Flood Brothers, comedy 

acrobats. NOTES.— Joseph Callegarl, Jr., for 

several seasons with Mr. Poll in various cepacitlos, 
but recently New York booking agent, has been 
appointed resident manager of Poll's Bljon The- 
atre, this city. — It is authoritatively announced by 
G. B. Bunnell that the desired alliance with 
Messrs. Klaw & Erianger has been consummated. 
CX)mmrncing November 1 all of the atrave firm's 
prodQctlons will be presented at Mr. Bunnell'a 
New Haven theatre. Syndicate prices prevailing 
elsewhere will be charged here and two or three 
night stands with usual matinees be the rule. In 
the past all of Klaw ft Erlanger's shows have been 
produced at the Shubert Bros.' house, the Ily- 
pcrloQ. B. J. TODD. 



NEW ORLEANS. LA. 

OREBNWALL (Henry Greenwall. mgr.).— Week 
7: Harry Hastini^'s "Bachelor Club Burlesquers," 
presenting "Just Before the Battle .Stnother" and 
"What Joy in Joyland." These burles4]ues are 
free from the nastluess and auggestlveness of the 
shows that have preceded It. The girls are hand- 
some, the costumes showy and the chorus works 

with vim and snap. OUPHEUM (Martin Beck, 

K<'n. mgr. Monday rehenrsal 1). — Week 8: Nlta 
Allen and company form the headline attraction In 



FAMILY {E. B. Sweet, res. mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10:30). —The Baker Trio, good; William 
Deery and Ollie Francis. fair; Thy son and 
Brown, good; Allen, Delmaln and company in "A 
Tin Wedding," hit; Mitts Stevens, singing 
comedienne, fair; Adolpb Adams, impersonator, 
good. W. C. MATIERN. 



PROVIDENCE. B. L 

WESTMINSTER (C. E. Bachelor, mgr.).— Fresh 
und ta»teful costumes and a strong olio make the 
show ial)elled Trocadero Burlesguers one of greater 

merit than those recently seen at this theatre. 

KEITH'S (Chas. Luveoberg, res. mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 9). — Creasy and Dayne in their one- 
act play "Grasping au Opportunity" caused some 
disappointment, as thia sketch did not seem to 
please as well as their former ones. The Four 
Fords and Avery and Hart the biggeat hits on the 
bill, the former displaying exceptional grace and 
skill in their dancing. Avery and Hart bad the 
audience in roars. Lisle Leigh assisted by Edward 
Eisner gave a weak dramatic sketch entitled "Kid 
Glove Ann." The Moulier Sisters gave a higb- 
clasa exhibition on the horisontal bars. The aa- 
sistaut offers no comedy. Lucy and Lucler, a big 
hit. Included in the rest of the program are 
Geo. W. Day. May Walsh. The Fryors and Grace 
Chlldors. &-. M. SAMUELS. 



RACINE, WIS. 

BIJOU (Wm: C. Tlede, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
9:30).— Week 4: Bohemian Trio, singers, fair; 
Girlie Thompson, singer and dancer, good; Harria 
and Walker, colored singers and dancera, ordi- 
nary; Dolly Le <iray. favorite; Frank I'erry, g(K)d: 
Lavender Richardson and company, feature; Cheaa 
Roy, foot balancer (local), good Impression; Rad- 
ciiffe and Beaumont, comedy, fair; Norton, the 
magician, gtKxI. WM. J. McILRATH. 



READING, PA. 

ORl'llEL'M (Frank Hill, mgr.).— Week 8: Fair 
show to good business. Paul La Croix, Juggling 
fair; Libby and Traycr, well recelvcHl; Harry 
Thompson, monologue; Gertie Reynolds and her 
"Twirlie Girlies," pleased; Coakley and McBrlde, 
blackface, pleased; Gallagher and Barrett, big hit. 
D'Amon, the headline act, billed as "The Great 
White Mystery," does an act aimilar to the Fays. 

FairJy well received. BIJOr (ITpdegraff & 

Brownell. mgrs.). — 8-10: Rentz-Santley Bur- 
lesquers. Good show to fair business. 11-13, 
"Greater New York Stars." HALLY. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 

COOK OPERA HOUSE (William B. McCallum. 
mgr.). — Charles E. Evans and company acored big 
with clever sketch; James J. Morton pleased; Ed. 
F. Reynard entertained satisfactorily in his novel 
vcntrlloqulal specialty and Will Rogers won well- 
merited applause for clever exhibition of lasso 
throwing; J. K. Murray and Clara Lane offered a 
Kood sketch and Marzelo and Millay presented a 
gymnastic act which does not suffer in comparison 
with others seen at this house; The Holdsworths 
sang and danced themselves Into favor. 



SAGINAW, MICH. 

JEFFKRS (Chester Sargent, res. mgr. Sunday 
rehearsal 11). — Week 7: Helene Gerard and her 
horse, good; Miles and Raymond were welcomed 
upon their return engagement, their act, "The 
Baby In the Cradle," is a winner; Frank Mayne 
and company presented the "Tipster" and were 
greeted with much applause; "The Sexton's 
Dream" was a singing novelty and was s good 
number; Edward Grey, "The Tall Tale Teller," 
made good; Chas. De Carno and "Cora," a little 
white dug, good; Esmeralda, the xylophonist; 
Marlon and Dean, Mabel and Bordew were good 
musical numbers. NBNNO. 



SALT LAKE CITY, TTTAR. 

OUPHEUM (W. L. Jennings, res. mgr.).— Week 
1: "Ferry In Falr>land," unique; Lillian Ashley, 
enperlally good In Imitation of children; Ollvetra 
Trio, mnnical virtuoso; Margaret Wycherly, good; 
C^harles !?liarp, musical monologue, excellent; Rob- 
ert De.Mont 'Trio, acrobatic comedy, scored well. 

BON TON (J. H. Young, mgr.).— Week 1: 

Abbott, lllnstrated song; Ml«s Gilbert, contortlon- 
iHt; Dick Parkn. song and dance; Welsh, musical 
turn, good; Msrgnret Barker, soubrette; Rath and 
Severence, comedy sketch. JAY B. JOHNSON. 



■AN ANTONIO, TEXAS. 

MAJBS'nO (T. W. Mullaly, mgr. Sunday re- 
bearaal 9:30).— Week 7: The Yerxas. good; Fox 
and Duball, dancers, clever act; Chas. B. Ward, 
"The Bowery Boy," a splendid voice, went big; 
Duffy, 5lawtelle and Duffy in "Papa's Sweetheart," 
one continued laugh; Schepp's dog, pony and mon- 
key circus, the best ever seen here; Three Weston 
Sisters, musical artists, good; Mr. and Mrs. Rob- 
yns in "The Counsel for the Defence." the fea- 
ture of the week's bill. CAL. OOHBN. 



BOHENECTADY. N. Y. 

MOHAWK (Joe Weber, res. mgr.).— Week 8: 
Tlie Kratons, hoop rollers, good; Blssett and 
Scott, novelty dancers, pleased; Tom Nawn and 
company In "Pat and the Genii," excellent; 
Reta Cnrtls, trick and solo violinist, good; Sa- 
Heras, thought reader, very clever; Sydney Dean 
and company may come again; Four Livingstons, 
good. MARTBL. 



SHAMOXIN, PA. 

FAMILY (W. D. Nellds. mgr. Monday rehear- 
sal 10).— Bill 8-10: Jones and Walton, ruatie 
comedy, exceptionally good; Adair and Henney, 
singing and dancing, ordinary; Alpha Trio, comedy 
hoop Jugglera, good; The Sldonlas, comedy act, 
good; John T. Walte, trick violinist, good; Berke 
and Sbn, comedy sketch, fair. MILLER. 



SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

POLI'S (Gordon Wrlghter, mgr. Monday re- 
liearsal 10).— Week 8: Bert Leslie; Duffln-Redcay 
Troupe, sensational casting; Kelly and Violette, 
tine; sketch "Recognition" went big; Harry Le 
Clair, mediocre; Zena Keefe, very good; Cavana, 

good wire act. Capacity houses. NEW GIL- 

MORB (P. F. Shea, mgr.).— "The Lid Lifters," 
M-10, pleased; good attendance. 

FRANK McDonald. 



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l/cster In "The Lille Immigrant," gmtd; Brooks 
and Vedder, fair; Ix>well and Ix>well, two clever 
acrobats: "The Kigbt Primroses," "girl act." 
Hendrlx and Prescott, dancers, also appeared.-- 
LYCEUM (R. II. Keller, mgr.).— "Tlie Avenue 
Girls" pleased large audiences the flrNt half of 
the week. "The Innocent Maids" appear for the 
last half. J. J. M. 



ST. PAUL, MINN. 

STAR (J. C. Van Roo. mgr.).— Tlie "Kentucky 
Helles" company, opened week of 7 with a one- 
act satire called "Society," written by Jack H. 
Reld, who also has leading part. He Is ably 
assisted by Frank Carroll and Ella Reid Gilbert 
In the leading female role. The dining scene Is 
good, though not new. By cutting out a few sug- 
gestive verses the skit is clean. The olio in- 
f hides: Reld and Gilbert, comedians, clever; 
Century Comedy Four in harmonious selections, 
fair; Andy McCloud. the Irish minstrel, good; 
Wlora Trio, Hungarian singers and dancers, splen- 
did; Young Buffalo, America's greatest marksman, 
assisted by Mile. Marieta, good as a marks- 
woman. Lillie Crawford, soubrette. goo<l. 

NOTE.S.— St. Paul had Its first taste of real ten- 
cent vaudeville In the opening of the Windsor 
Novelty Company. The bill this week Inrhnlea 
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, high-class vocalists, good; 
Will Hart, singing and dancing comedian, fair; 
Robert St. Claire, baritone, splendid.— The New 
Orpheum opens Its doors 20 under the manage- 
ment of Martin Beck. Seat prices graduate from 
ten cents to one dollar. 100. 



TOLEDO, 0. 

VALENTINE (Otto Kllves, mgr. Sunday re- 
hearsal 10).— Week 8: The biggest hit this week 
Is "The Fifth Commandment." It Is prettily 
staged and the small cast exceedingly good. Julius 
Steger especially Is to be congratulated. Other 
numbers are Frank Bush, Sam Elton, Chalk Saun- 
ders. Jack Wilson and company, Bonnie Gaylord, 

Ed Estus, Morton and Diamond. EMPIRE (Abe 

.Schapiro, mgr.).— This week "The Golden Crook" 
to.falr booses. SYDNEY WIRE. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 

CHASE'S (Winnifred Dewltt, mgr. Monday re- 
hean^al lo;l6). — The Orpbeum road sliow is a|i 
rearing this week. A good bill, which Includes 
the following acts: Menetekel. "the mystic ball." 
hit; "Rain Dears. ' immense: Walter C. Kelly, 
fine; Four Nigbtons, gymnasts, goo«l: Claud and 

Fannie Usher, good: Work and Over. good. 

NEW LYCEUM (Eugene Kernan, mgr. Monday 
rehearsal 10). — Fay Foster burlesquers are draw- 
ing goo4l houses. During the pieces some good 
musical numl>ers were introduced. The olio was 
very good. The McCall Trio were the hit of tht? 
show. Carroll Filer and company, good sketch; 
.\lsace anil Lorraine, musical entertainers, good; 
Bessie Phillips, singor. good; I.iew Leeber, illus- 
trated songs, sweet voice. NOTES. — This week 

Is an exceptional good week at all the theatres, 
as the Spanish American war veterans are having 
a reunion here. — Ira J. Lamotte, who was man 
ager for the Majestic Theatre of this rlty, has 
leslgned. to manage "The Millionaire's Re- 
venge." — Mose Gumble, of Remlcks & Co.. 
dropped In town last Tliursday nlglit for a sImmI 
stay. W. H. BOWMAN. 



TORONTO, CAN. 

SHEA'S (J. Shea, mgr. Monday rehearsal 10.).— 
The famous Toozoonin Abras are wonderful acro- 
bats. The Zlngan Troupe, well received; Cary 
C. Wilbur and Gertrude Mansfield, acored; Welch, 
Mealy, Montrose, gave some excellent dancing 
and tumbling; Taylor and Holmes, and Seymour 
and Hill In their eccentric comedy and aorobntlc 
act completed a fine bill.- — rSTAR (F. W. Stair, 
mgr. Monday rehearsal 10.). — Sam Devere's own 
company provided good entertainment week of 8. 

HARTLEY. 



WINNIPEG, MAN. 

DOMINION (D. Douglas, mgr. Monday re 
hearsal 10). — Week 2: Roode. wire, good; Hacdle 
Lnngdon, female baritone, gKod; HIckey and Nel- 
son, good; Millard Brothers, banjolsts, score big; 
The Be.\no8. novelty, good; Kckhoff and Gordon, 

hit. BIJOU (Nash & Burrows, mgrs. Monday 

reiiearsal .3). — Week 3: La Renos, good; The 
Bradys, bag punchers, fair; Edna Daven|)ort. fair; 
Riley and Matthews. "The Prevaricators." well 
received; Hugh J. Kmmett, ventriloquist, hit. 

S. J. HORTON. 



TROY, N. Y. 

PROCTOR'S (W. H. Graham, mgr. Monday 
rehearsal 10).- -E«lward Davis and company In 
"Tlie Unmasking," won favor. Charlotte Ravens- 
croft, vocalist, pleased; Lew Sully, hit; Acker and 



WORCESTER, MASS. 
POLI'S (J. C. Criddle, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
10).— Week 8: Whitman Sisters and Willie Robin- 
scm, very good; Herr Sanora, impersonator, well 
received; James A. Klernan company In one-act 
fiirce. fair; Cook and Madison, funny comedians; 
Joe Welch, pleasing: Congo and I.rf»o. aerial gym- 
nasts, clever; Misses Dclmore, pleased. ^P.MIK 

(Al F. Wilton, mgr.).— The "Champagne Girls' 
are captivating young women with multitudinous 
costumes to render their appearance more entranc- 
ing. The show was well mounted and elicited un- 
stinted applause at times. 

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The Empire Theatre, Johannesburg 
The Tivoli Theatre, Cape Town 

SOUTH AFRICA 

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Mr* SYDNEY M* HYMANy the London manager of these* 
well known theatres, who is now in New York booking acts for South 
Africa and London, and will be here until October 31st, having heard 
different reports as to the treatment of artists visiting South Africa, 

reprints with pleasure the following letter from 
Newell and Niblo which appeared in Variety (page 8) 
on October 6. 

The letter was a voluntary contribution to Variety, 
having been written by Neweil and Niblo at the express 
request of the Editor for an IMPARTIAL STATE- 
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SOUTH AFRIGj^ 

By NEWELL AND NIBLO. . 



Empire Theatre, 

Johannesburg, Sept. 2. 

We left New York on July 17, arrived 

in London in due time and sailed for Cape 

Town on August 4. Arrived there in 

seventeen days, after a very pleasant voy- 
age. Laid over in Cape Town until the 
next morning, which is a new way, as 
formerly all artists left on tlie day of 
arrival. 

The Cape Government Railway has re- 
cently added another train, which makes 
the jump in fourteen hours less time, with 
a dining car all the way and fairly good 
sleeping accommodations. We had been 
dreading the rail journey, having heard 
of its hardships, but now it is different. 
We reached "Joburg," as all the natives 
call Johannesburg, on time Friday morn- 
ing, and were met at the station by a 
crowd, among whom were our old Ameri- 
can friends Phil and Nettie Peters. 

They have the nice habit of sitting in 
their seats here until the show is over. 
The theatre is new, large and beautifully 
furnished. Dressing rooms ample and 
nicely fitted up; windows opening on to 
a court, which gives plenty of fresh air. 
A nice green room for the artists to 
lounge in. 

Regarding the treatment of the women 
it may be well to go into details, owing 
to past conflicting stories. The Empire 
of to day is not the old Empire. Then 
the audiences were practically composed 
of men. Since the building of the new 



house society has taken it up and it is 
not uncommon to see half the lower floor ^. 
filled with ladies and the Wednesday * 
matinee, which is the only one given, is 
principally composed of ladies and chil- .^. 
dren. _ , ^ 

If a single girl comes out here and 
chooses to behave herself she will positive* 
ly not have any more trouble in doing : 
so than in New York or Ix)ndon. Of 
course, if she wishes to go out to wine 
i^uppers and have a good time she will be ' 
given plenty of opportunity. To men who' 
contemplate bringing their wives I can 
say with assurance that they have noth- 
ing whatever to fear. The women artists 
will be treated with as much courtesy 
and respect here as at home and possibly 
more. The position is exactly the same 
i\s at home. It all depends upon the 
woman. 

Joburg used to be a very expensive city » 
to live in and is still for that matter, 
btit things are growing cheaper every 
month. One can find all prices to suit 
their purse and individual tastes at about 
one-third more than in New York. Drinks 
are expensive, twenty-five cents being thf 
regular price for all drinks served across 
the bar, except home-brewed beer, which 
is twelve cents of our money. Clothes are 
about double London prices; so are shoes., 
May say to those considering the trip that • 
it is not only a very pleasant engagement 
bnt profitable as well, and they will find 
the Messrs. Hyman m<»Ht solicitous for 
artists' comfort. 



All communications, with particulars where your act may be seen, 
to be addressed to • 

SYDNEY M. HYMAN 

Rmm 1 1 9, 1 265 Braitoai NEW YORK CITY 

AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE 

ROBERT D. GIRARD (at the »am^ aaaf«») ' ' ■ 



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VARIBTT 




REPRESENTATIVE ARTI«T« 

1 ■ il 




REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 




HEADLINER WEEK SEPTEMBER 17 AT NORUMBEGA PARK, NEAR BOSTON 

' JUSX AIIRIVCD AFTCR SCVCN YCARS TOVR OF THK 'WORLD 



COOKE 



AND 



MISS ROTHERT 



ECCENTRICS EXTRAORDINAIRE 



*.., .•.■.;, .. 



■ , •.:■.'.■:'.': 'i- ■'•I :.,.'■..'■•■■ ■ ■ '■ . , ■■■. r ^- ■':'■'.'--.:■ i- : ■• •» • ■ il •,* 

SPECIAL BIO FEATmtE w««k B«pt. thl, OARRICX THXATKB. WILlinreTOV. ITPADT.TWERB w— k Sept. 10th, VAMILT TBZATKE. BOKAITTOK. 



j.> 



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Permaneiit address, EHRICH HOUSE, aag WEST 38TH STREET, NEW YORK«^ 






CARRILLO 

The Only Chinese Dialect 
Comedian in Vaudeville - 

Can furnish the best 
Parodies in the business 



Written by 



WILLIAM BARTELL 
and LEO CARRILLO 



Address care Variety, 1402 B*way, New York. 
NOTE-Hr. Bartell Is the man who writes all of Joe Morris* Material 



Have a Cartoon of Your- <<ir;«^A 'or f ^KK» 
self or Your Act Hade— T lue the LODDj 

ASK WALTER G. KELLEY 



f f 







Bordeverry 



IK MA tm BtintH ! ! ! 

rf ■ , ■ ' -■' . 

Occupying Place of Honor on Ehrery Bill. 

PLAYING TO PACKED HOUSES. 

Everything refined, clean, clever, and presented in an artistic manner. 

■■■ . ■.^t V ' "^ -■ ■ ■ ■ : ' .■■' ■' ■: ■■■- ■■ ■ •• 

"Bordeverry! You are the best show- 
man we have ever had or seen!" 

Messrs. THOMPSON AND DUNDY, late MANAGERS of the NEW YORK 
HIPPODROME. 

In a few weeks all New York will go to the Hippodrome to see MY GREAT 
NOVELTY. 

All communications care of Keith's OfiSce or New York Hippodrome. 



PASTOR'S THEATRE : (Next) WEEK of OCT. 15 

.:•■;■:•'■,: LITTLE . .■■ " ■ 

GARRY OWEN 



IN 



"The Polished Villain" 



THE FAMOUS C. G. CONN 

Band and Orchistra Inttrumints 

are unod by 9l) per cent of the muHlcal acts of America aud 
Kiirope. 

Musical artists respectfully Invited to call at the New York 
houK*' and Mr. J. F. Boyer, the Manager, will l»e pleased to ex- 
plain the merits of these Instnimeuts and will accord you the 
ln'st of treatment. 

C. C. CONN CO., 46 West 28th Street, N. Y. City 

1906 MODELS ARE THE WINNERS. 




A Satirical Protean Matadrama 



By CHARLES HORWITZ. 



6 Characters 



10 Chans^es 



A travaaty offarino oomblnino all featuraa off "pralaan** akalohaa, played aolaly by an eight, 
year-old boy. 

MANAGERS AND AGENTS ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO SII THIS ACT. 



WIGS 



Theatrical and Street LartMt AjMortment. Staff* Makeup. Anytbinff to 

Order. Goods the beat. Prices riffht. Bend for oatalofu*. Do it now. 

BUTEN <Sk CO.* Mt Majeetio Theatre Bldff.. 
'Phone, Oeatral 6164. CHICAGO 



ROSS AND LEWIS 



"THE YANKEE DOODLE DUO" 

.In TOM FOOLERY 



WEEK OCTOBER 15. PASTOR'S 



OPENING MOSSSTOLL TOtm FEBRUARY S6, 1907. 



Havo Your Card In V/ARIEXY 



Wkm •mnomiHi mdmmr$kmnm$9 himih mmUion Yabort. 



VARIETY 



19 



• '»- 



REPRESeiNTATlVe ARTIST6 



RCPRCSBINTATIVB ARTISTS 



THE 

TOY 

SOLDIER 




WALTON 



WEEK OCT. IS. MARYLAND THEATRE. BALTIMORE. MD. 



Management LOUIS WESLEY 



WILLIAM ROCK 

IN VAUDEVILLE 

MaBMTMBMit B«i M. J«reai« AmoMment Co.. tl7-91t lohiller Buildint. OUoaco. 

The Arlington Four 

(LANE. LEE. MANIfT AND ROBERTS) 

BOOKED BOLID. 
Week Oct. 15. Keith's, Boston. Week Oct. 82, Colonial, Lawrence, Mass. 

Address MTER8 ft KELLER. 



JOHN C. 



SALLY 



RICE and COHEN 



nr VAUDEVILLE. 
Per. address. SOt W. 18Snd St., N. T. City. 



THE TOTITOS 

European NoTolty Aot. Now en tour. 



The Most Nowel Act in Vaudeville 

IRGINIA 






AND HER 



"JOHNNIES" 



_ 





in Vaudeville 



Manayement JACK LETT, 

140 WEST 4SD STREET. 
NEW YORK OITT. 



Mr. & Mrs. GENE HUGHES 



PRIBBNT1N9 TBI BAINTT 
eOMNDT PLATLIT. 

807 WEST 87TH STREET. NEW TORS OITT. 



"SUPPRESSING THE PRESS" 

'Pbene 7870- J RlTerslde. 



TO THE ST. ONGE BROTHERS 

Standard cycle act, that is full of merit; 

The material their own, they don't take nor inherit. 

Original feats 1 On the wheel they excel. 
Noteworthy is that, they do comedy as well. 
Grotesque makeup, that does not offend, 
Entirely worn by the comedy end. 

Bright, humorous monologue that sparkles with wit, 

Relative to cycling, the material does fit 

On any bill, irrespective of place. 

Speed is their motto, they'll keep up the pace. 

Compliments off Palmer & Gilbert 



THE ECCENTRIC COMEDY DUO 



ASHTO 




AND EARLE 



PRESENTING THEIR LAUOHINO NOVELTY 

^ "THE EDITOR OF FUDGE" 

V OLYMPIC, CHICAGO, WEEK OCTOBER 15 
■,.■■-••■ A NBW ACT IH VArDBVILI^B -■■■■ 

CORBLEY AN» CONLEY 



A scenio production. 



"THE PIKER AND THE SPORT" 



16 minutes in one. 



Elinore Sisters 



In VAUDEVILLE 



Direction GEO. HOMANS 



DARE DEVIL CASTELLANE 

Assisted by VOLO. 

■EVBATIOMAL DOITBLE "GAP OF DEATH" AND TRICK CYCLISTS. 

Eastern maaafers. wateh for ns. Permanent address oare VARIETY, Chicago Office, 79 8. Clark St. 

THE DANCING IVONDKRS 



J#%CK. 



i.-li.^L^IPIN 



BROWN I WRIGHT 



The only Sinflnf and Danoing Aot of Its Kind in Vaudeville. 



ALL AOENTS. 



MLLE. 



SOUSA 



AND 



SLOAN 



HARRY 



THE PRESTXDIOITATOR AND THE MAOICIXIN. 

("Watch the Soabbafe.") 
Watch tha finish. SEE THE 6 FRENCH POODLE DOGS. 
MANAGERS AND AGENTS INVITED. Week Oct. 16, Pastor's New York City. 

THE THREE CO AXES 

(Incladlnir "Littif VuDaower") 
W "WANTED. AN ERRAND BOY." 



ELIZABETH 



BERENICE 



The Banks-Breazeale 



The Dalntleat el Musical Acts 



Duo 

I 63 W. 4ftlh St., N. y. Clly 



:, THE ; • ■ 

VERY 
SUCCESSFUL 

COLORED 
COMEDIANS 



Cooper 





Weeh of Oct. 15, Grand Opera House, Pittsbttrg, as one of features, in a new act. BooKed solid for 63 weeKs 

WW ^rW* WW^WW^^^Ww w9W^ W^^W^^ W JW^^WW^^^Ww tWWfW^w^ J^^W^w^^F^ w 



20 



VARIETY 



RCPRE8BrSTATIVB 7%RTI«T« 



RePRB8BMTATIVB ARTI«T« 



Bowers. Wa Hers and Croeker 



THE 3 RUBES 



f 



Week Oct. 15 — Orpheum, AUentown, Pa. 



MARVELOUS BARD BROS. 

MOST WONDCRfUL GYMNASTS IN THE WORLD 

Week Oct. 16, Orpheum, San FranoiBoo. 
Anybody can iteal; it takes Vrains to oriffiaate. W«ik Oot. tt, Orpheum, Lea Aarelea. 

Booked Solid ScMOB 19064)7 By MYCRS A KELLER, ExdiMve Agents 





IN ENGLAND 

MTILK^ SOON RETURN 



VO OPEV TIME. 

1TR8T AMEEICAN AOTOB TO PHODVCE A PKOTEAV PLAT. 

ThoSm dm Keogh \ COm 



(BUTE FRAVOU) 



J. X. BXnUL 



C 



rRANK 



MURIEI^ 



• It 



mbs 



AND 



Stone 



"THE LAST or THE TB0X7PE." By CHA8. HOBWITZ. 



The latest saooess In TaudeTille. Our own special soenery. Mr. Coombs for three 
solo tenor with Oeorre Primrose. 

OOMW LOOK UM 0¥eR 

BARTH BROS, and 




OOMBDT GYMNASTS. 



JACK IRWIN 



•SHABKEY* 



OPEV FOB BVBLESQITB = Play all parts and strong act for olio. 

Now wrltlnff original first part, "Two Old Pals" and burlesque, "The Twentieth Century 
Plrstes." Guaranteed ererytbing new for next season. 




NYE 



Assisted 
by his 



■Vrollicking girls " 



Sohroolc & Rio 



(THE TALKING CYCLISTS). 

«'A CHANCE or BUSINESS*' 

SEASON 1907-08. 
■■■'■■■■'-■■• --^ VAUDfcVlLLF 

DIBECTION BEICH, PLXrNKETT A WE&LET. 
THIS SRA&ON SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTION. BYBNE BROS.' "8 BELLS." 



Alexis 



TKX HAPPT PAIB 



AND 



Schall 



BOOKED SOLID ON KEITH TOUR 



LYDIA *i>> ALBINO 



BQVlLlBBXSTfl AND OTMNA8TI0 ACT. 
Week Oot. 16, Orpheum, Boston. 



Chas. Leonard Fletcher 

ON (opposite side of the) EARTH : 

To«riiag tla« VToria 
ADDRESS UNTIL MARCH 1st 

TIVOLI THEATRE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 

Care of Harry RicRards* Esc|. 



IDA 



SALMON <a chb:ster 



AVtTmALZAV SHTEBTAZMSBB DT 



LONDOV OOfRB AOT. 





"THE DQUE BOT." 

Booked solid til l July . IMS. orer Keith Circuit by 

MTEB8 ft XELLZB. 

WATCH THE SALLERY ! 

MARTIN M i\tm 

WEEK OCTOBEB 16, TBOCADEBO THEATBE, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. EN BOVTE, 
_^ EMPIBE SHOW. 

THOSE FUNNY CYCLISTS 

Millard Bros. 



BILL 

Always Riding. 

ASK BOB MANCHESTER. 



MINNIE 



BOB 



EDDIE 




Singing and Talklag Aot. Travesty oa Tirgiaus 
SAM DEVEBE'S OWN COMPANY SEASON 

•06-'07. 



[MMETTiiillelEIll 



IN TAVDEYILLB. 



Redford'WiiKliester 

BOOKED SOLID. . 
Week Oot. U, Keith-Proctor's 6«th St. 

nr "PRIMA DONNA AND OHO.'* 
ADDRESS 118 WEST MTH ST. ^ 
Telephone 1169-B Bryant. 

ITirito 

THE ORIGINAL CALIFORNIA'S FAVORITE 
COMEDIENNES 

IN VAUDEVILLE. ; 

SADie HUESTED 

LKMOima BOY 

With Baltimore Beauties. 

CHERIDAH SIMPSON 

starring ia "The Red Feathsr." 
Direction JOS. M. OAITES. 

M Your (iril in Virlety 



ilDBt^B PURVIS 




IM 




I 



A NEW ACT 



Assisted 
by 



ALLTHORPE 



HARRY TSUDA 



MWUBtUMT 



in Her Well Known Spherical Dance — — i^ Her Original Spade Dance * Can be engaged In ceajnnctleB with this act. 

Address REICH, PLVNKETT fSb WESI^EY, St. Jam«a BuildiAg. N«w TorlK Citr 



VARIETY 



21 



REPRE8E1NT/1TIV& ARTIST® 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 




4ND 




Presenting **PIERROT and PIERRETTE*' 



Per. Address 3405 Colling^vood Ave.» Toledo* O. 



xSHEAN— WARREN ou 



In Their OrUrinal TrsTMtiei, 



11 



QUO VADIS"— "CAPT. KIDD 

FEB. ADD., 81 CHESTER STREET, MOVHT VERNON, N. T. 



II 



SEASON 'OT-'OS. STARRING XTNDER DIRECTION OF FERCT a. WILLIAMS. 

ThcTHREE OLIVERS 



In a Sensational Tight Wire Act- 



Ask Myers & Keller 



Hal Godfrey & Co. 



II 



PRESENTINO NEXT SEASON 
*li 



THE LIAR" By Ednaad Day AND "A VERY BAD BOY" By Irthir Uib 

Two of the few sUBdmrfl tketches ia YAadtrllto. 



LsBdoa Acwt. OSARLEl 



Addr«M, •areiit*. Mom ft ttoU Tovr. 

B. OOOH&AM. le LatoMtar PIaoa, LaloMtar Bq.. Londoa. 



SAM 



JOE 



Bissett and Miller 

CKAS TATLOR M08 

NMt«it dressed d&noint act before' the public with' "BALTIMORE BEAXTTIES" 

October 8th, Miner's 8th Avenue. 



WILFRED CLARKE 

Assisted by MISS THf O CARCW and CO. 

Presenting Hie Sketches 

NO MORE THOUBLE ' tLiid "WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEX1 
MoomrsM, omf uu»ms' outm, mrw youk oitr 



tt 



a KG ROB 



THE OOMEDT AOBOBATIO VOTELTT. 



BO. 



Mullen iBLCoiilli 



nr HVMOBOUS fecttliabitibs. 



WEEK OCT. 18, FBOOTOB'S, TBOY. 



"LOOK OUT BELOW I" 



113dd3HS AUUVH 

I wM uot bom in Cork, neither do I «■• oerk on my faoe, but I pUj a oorkinf (ood IrUkmaa m priaafaMl 

oomedian with the "CHEBRT BLOSSOMS." 



BOB 



K 




M 





COMEDY SKETCH 

BIO SUCCESS ON WILLIAMS' CIRCUIT. 



THE BOYS THAT HAVE SEEN THE 'WORI^D A BIT 



Manhattan Comedy Four 



Ageiit»-MYERS & KELLER. 



BACK FROM THE WEST. 



CARTER 



WILLIAMS 



DAVIS 



MACK 



A BIO HIT EVERYWHERE. 



Ainoyd pue SH]11VM 



Week Oct. 16. Utio«, N. T. 



CARLISE I BAKER 

THB COLORED ARISTOCRATS. 
PlanlRts, Tocaliets end compoaera. PUylng two pltnoe at one time. 



Star Affmction 
roues MARIQNY, PARIS 

t^ice: prolonged 

A LC MATIN— *'Thc Biggest Amci lean Hit In Years." 

0. H. HARRIS, Monoger CD. liARKUM, Press Rep. 



ELTINGE 



WORK 



AND 



COMEDY ACROBATS 



OWER 



ORPHEUM SHOW SEASON '06*07. 





uo. 



HORSE TERSUS CYCLIST 
A Leffltlmate Baeiaff Act 



MIKE BERNARD 

Pianist at Pastor*s Theatre 



Caa aooept other eaeafomoata. Cl«b 



•speeiaUy. AAirtM eai« of Baater'i 



DAVE FERGUSON 



Seaton 1906-'07. 



LIOHT COMEDIAN WITH FENNESSY'i "MISS NEW YORK, JB.*' 

MaMc«mrat L K. KXBX. 



FRANK. 



CUSHMAN 

Tiie World's Famous 204ii Coitury Minsfrei 

For Open Time Addrees R. ORAU, Suite and 10, 1858 BROA DWAY 

BESSIE VALDARE'S 

TROUPE or CYCLISTS AND UNICYCLISTS 

SMARTEST DRESSED AND MOST REFINED BICYCLE ACT BEFORE THE PUBT.TC 

EDA CARLE, REPRESENTATIVE. 

ZINGARI TROUPE 



PivMated b7 ALEZANDZB BZTAN. 
When afiMcmn^ adveriUemmitt kindly fneniion Vabhty. 



Dtrectioa of OFOROE HOMANt. 



22 



VARIETY 



■•-^ 



RBPRB8BINTATIVD ARTISTS 



RBPRB8BMTATIVe ARTISTS 



ARTHUR PRINCE «id 




D&AMATIO tOFSAVO. 



Sarah Louise Cogswell 



IOm wilM^ .r SXAINLEY A 1A/IL.SOIN 

rBEMAvnr AsnmvML m w. mtk r.. nw tokx oitt. 



MARION 



S/lBeL 



AND 



THE RCriNCD COMEDIAN 



and 



DEANE 



THE COMEDIEIHNr 



What Variety Mid aboat oar act at Keith's Union Square, week September 24tb. 

Variety dated September 29tb: 

"Marlon and Deane do well in a comedy ainging and talking act. They have a top!<-al Hong in 
which tbej exchange Unea that helps the »ct not a little. Miss Deane <lresH*>s with excellent taste, 
aa also doea her partner."— RUSH. 

A EZnVKD, OLZYXE OOKEDT ACT TBAT HITS THE RIGHT SPOT. BOOKED SOUO UNTIL 

FEBRUARY 18TH. 

MORRIS MAKLET AWD DOLLT STERLING IN THEIR ORIGINAL PLAYLET 

Kid Hicl^ev 



, ■(• '■ 



Copyrighted Claaa 1. XXC. No. 8811. 



A DAINTY MUSICAL ARTISTE. 



BERTHA MOSS^RUSSELL 



TiL ItM l>-aedf erd. 



Can Work la One. 



Per. addreas. M Hanoook St., Brooklyn. 



rsATViucD ymiTH "bom tons 



t* 



FRANCES CLARE 



WEEK 18. STANDARD THEATRE, CINCINNATL 



Eirle and BartleH 

THE NATURAL IRISH OOMEDLiLN AND THE SINGINO OOMZDIENVX. ^"^ 

L.IUY SEVIUL.B 



IDA CARLS, Bernaeatatlve. 



THE GREAT 




WoHd's Otmmimsi Marksman 

AOXNTt.— WM. MORRU. HUGO MOmmH, FAT OASKT. LOUIS PDIOVl. 



R. H. 



RUTH S. 




AND 



I 




YaadeTille'a Leadint Entertaiaers with the Banjo. 



Per. addreaa, 58 Waahington St.. Middletown, Conn. 



• • 



I^ITTLK BOY AND I^ITTl^C GIRL 



• • 



m: GARDNER AND REVERE a^ 



P«rsnan«nt address* oare Variety 



Cl^L BOY AND T 



HE. 90VBRCTTC" 

CKicago Offices 79 S. ClarR Street 



DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS 

Clemenso Bros. 



NOVB 

AimOBATXO OLOWMl. 



TIME OP ACT. Ifl MINUTES. Addreas Cars YARnRT. 



JORDAN Al HARVEY 



Abbie Carlton 



WATCH rOI NIIT SIASON. 



nr LIVING ART STUDIES. 
Aasisted by ten most beautiful and ahapely girls. 



SOMITmifG NIW AND NOVEL IN STATUAIY 



"Waahington Society Girls," Seaaon '0«-'07. 



TO ENGLAND ON THE CUNARD LINE. 

MYSTERIOUS 



Howard Brothers 

The World's acknowledged thought transmission and telepathic wonders. 
Week Oct. 15, Keith's Theatre, Boston, Mass. Week Oct 82, 6th Are. Theatre, N. Y. City. 

BOOKED SOLID UNTIL APRIL. 



M.S. BENTHAM IPresents 

Nan En^eton and Co. 



Inoludlnc MIRON LEFFINGWELL 

in 
'HOW THE WIDOW WAS WON.' 



ECCENTRIC COMEDIAN. 



Chris Richards 

BIGGEST SUCCESS OF ANY ENGLISH COMEDIAN IN AMERICA. 



EXTRA I 



EXXRA I 



EXTRA I 



MARVEUOUS 



FERRELL BROTHERS 



• • FLIPS iahd FLOPS * ' 



Cn route with "Merrr Maidens Co." 



UNO. A, WEST 



- Yob, Tom Barrett i{ets a fe^r btimps 

"THB/nUSBC^L^Bf^OVi/NiB** 

YOU HAVE READ THE CRITICISMS (1) OF SHOE STRING PEDDLERS. ETC. 

Now read a Real Crltioiam ^^^^ News, Chicago: Jubu A. West is a comedy host wortli 

From a SmI V^Mr dropping in to hear. His reminder of minstrelsy is great, bl» 

__ , rmw^T make-up atudloualy funny, hla musical efforts capital and his 

. , *y • »••! Reporter. whole act flne.~Amy Lcallc. BOOKED SOLID JUNE », IW7. 



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23 



1 

I 

4 



RBPRB«BNTATIVE ARTIST^ 



REPRESBINTATIVB ARTI«T9 



M A|m|mm^ Ffty (The Entertainer) AND THE 

Twin 



MELNOTTE 

One of the Features with the DREAMLAND 
to San Francisco Friends) 

Addrwa per routt or cart VARIETY, * CHICAGO OFFICE, 79 S. CLARK ST. 




A Dainty Comedy Novelty Upstart |in *K)ne'\ 

BURLESQUERS. (Regards 




• riMOVB OHAKAOTSE OOKEDZAV. 



Robinson 






]>r«w*t <*00L6VZA1 BSLIIS" 



RBNB 



BBBT 



THE VEDMARS 



VOVBLTT COMZDT ACKOBATl 



OLOBOrO OUO WITH "XXM VZW TOEK, JB." 
Manairrni^iit I. H. HRRK 



KID H. 



I^VLU 



THOMAS and PAYNE 

Colored Expert Wooden Shoe and Roller SKate Dancers 

Week Dot. 1ft, Orphaiun, Allantowii. 

ALBERT SUTHERLAND, St James BoUding. N. Y. 

Bert Howard &Leona Bland 

.PBB8ENTING 
'VTHE STAGE MANAGER" 

Another b*w on* in proparntlon. 



OHABAOTEB 80N0S ABD WKIBTLZVO. 



HELEN TRIX 



•( 



A TIP FROM TIPPEBABT.' 



Sm Pat Oaaaj at Wm. Morria' OAca. 



ONC or THK BOYS FROM HOMK 



FRANK 



FOGERTY 




"THB MAM WITK TBX rUVVT BLDB.' 



Chas. J. Burkhardl 



iMe.'vr. 



lyi 



VXW TOES. JB.' 



X. X. 



GERTIE REYNOLDS 



AHD HXB 



CI 



TWIRLIE GIRLIES 



DiraotiOB V. TBSTFTJBT 



19 

Acaot WILLIAM MOBBIt 



HICKMAN BRO& 

Will present a new art next season written especially for tbem by Mr. Wilfred Clarke. 
Direction M. 8. BEKTHAM. BOW OB THE ORPHEVX O I BO UI T. 





JULII 



KINGSLEY 



AND 



LEWIS 



NELtOI 



'THB DVBLnr MnriTBZL. 



!•• Pat Oaaay at Wm. Morria' Oflaa. 



FRED ZOBEDIE 

Tha InoomparabU Hand Balanoar. 
Vow booking for VandoTill*. AT UBEBTT DEC. 10th. 

For particuUn addrass BOBEBT GIBABD. 1865 BBOADWAT, NEW TOBX, or FEED ZOBEDlE, aa 
par rouca with tha Oraat Adam Forapaufh-Salla Broa. Ciroua. 



JUGGLING 




cot. 1. OLYMPIC, CHICAGO. 



OCT. I, MAJESTIC. CHICAGO. 



"IF TOV CAB'T BE GOOD, BE CABEFVL." 

ER I IVI MOF" 

^^H'ltif tha Empire Show. Direction HEVCK A FENME8ST. 





Preaenting faroieal akatobaa, "After the Honeymoon" and "Her Vnde'a Blaoa." 
Addrtaa S. K. KODGDOV, Bt. Jamea Building. 



LEOHOBB 




ing and Dupuee 



In their new aot. enUtled "THE BTB0LLEB8." 
Week Got. 1ft. Albaugh'a Theatre, Baltimor*. Md. 



JIMMIE LUCAS 

"THE BOY WITH THE DIALECTS." 
Booked Solid, Keith and Orpheum Time. Week October 1ft— -Grand Opera House, Indianapolis. 

ANDY LEWIS AND COMPANY 

including Misa MAVDE ELLIOTT presents his new racing skit entitled 

"WON AT THE WIRE" 

Leading Feature with BAM DEYEBE'B OWV CO. 

P. 8. — One pair Brown, one pair Red. one pair I>avender tights in pretty fair condition "For Sale." 
Guaranteed aouie «llk. Have only been worn Four Seasons. All they need Is new feet and new legs. 
The band la in good condition. 



I 



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MAJESTIC 




Collins, Henry, Terrlll and Simon 

HIGH CLASS 
COMEDY MUSICAL OFFERING 



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RBPReeEMTATIVE ARTISTS 




A 



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THK ENCI^ISH VENTRILOQUIST 



Touring Amerloi 



Fred Karno's London 
Conredy Pantomimo Go's. 

/\^: Headliners everywhere — and get the money back. 
A IIMT II THE SLUMS IF LOIDOI, Oct. 15, Otpheum, BiooUyo. 

A JIIMT II Al EI8LISH MISIG lALL, Oct. .$, Olympic, Cindmuti. 

^Copyrighted at WAflhington. Attorney Wm. Groasman. "^ -^^^"^=^-^^=-- 
The original and legitimate productiona. 
Jail Birds and The Smoking Concert in repertoire. 
General Manager, ALF. RBEVES. Agenti, WM. MORRIS and H. B. MARIWELLI. 

METROPOLITAN 

OPERA TRIO 

If AM. AiniA PLUN, Prima Donna St^ori TOITOIICO ani BUSBI 

In condensed Teralons of "II Troratore" and "Fltnst" trios. Scenerj and coatnma ehaagett. Bona flde 

Orand Opera Blngers wbo bare anng In Grand Oi>era. 
TDAOAMLE, Bufiasas KapresanUtiT*, St Jamas Buildi^. 



BARBER -RITCHIE TRIO 



Tims all flllsd until onr rsturn to Empirs Thsatrs, Lendoe. Wssk Oot. U, Kssatr'a, BrsokljB. 

▲ddrsaa: asioh, Pluakstt * Wsalsj, Aoom lOtt, St. Jamsa Block, llSt Broadwaj. 



TH 



ORlOINftTOR 



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TKX nmanovAL otoloio 

SUR 



LAUEA 




■olia fa lbs! 
Vatil Jaaaaiy I, 
Aftar Tkat Aak 



^ REiCI. PLDIKETT S WESLEI. 



■T. J AMBl 

BVELDnOf 
MIWTOBX. 



Ferguson and Mack 

Booked solid until December. Direction JACK LEVY. 

RYAN-RICHFIELD COMPANY 

" "Mag Haggcrty's Reception'^ 



DiasoTxov wx. Mommxai 



BT WILL H. CBBUT. 

iTAmToro Toum imt^ DiKxonov p. g. wnxzAm. 



SECOND SEASON 



Lynotte Sisters 



'WABHUIOTOV BOCIXTT OIBLB' 
■EASOM 'ee-'OT. 



DIBBOnOV 
W. B. WATSOV. 



HAVB YOUR C/VRD IIN VARIETY 




AND 



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BKf ntnnad to thoir old field, VAUDEVILLX. 



COMEDIANS WHO CAN SING 



Ktaagement JAKE STERNARD. 



MLLE. LUBA DE 






Greatest Comedy Animal 
Act in Vaudeville 



pLATnre ovlt tmx bxst tdis. 



Par. addraas Hotal Matrofola, Vsw Toi^ City. 



CAPT. F. C. ROSSKOFF, Manager 



HBEB X AM AOAnr 
WITH SOMITKOIO VSW 



BILLY HART 



THE HTJXAH 
YXBTEILOQUXBT FIOVBX. 

aaslated bj 

KIM AWA TALI AND MABXB JABBEV. 

In a Norel Oomedj Act, Giving a Baal Barlesqoe Imitation on Ventrtloqolsm. 

Mj own Idea. I am tbe first; tbe ortginator; ao remember tbat. 

Tbls season "Yankee Doodle Girls" Ck>. Plratea, doo't treapass. ' Truly yonrs, 

BILLY HART. 



Kenney and Hoiiis 

^* Pioffrsaaivw Osaadiaaa, in a Vsw Aat by OEOBOS aUIOLET 

KBITH CIRCUIT NOW 

Minerva Vano 



Wtk Oct. 1ft, Lyoanm TlMatra, Pkiladalphia, Pa. Weak Oot. tS and later, open. 

OLOBXVO TXB OLIO WITK THE EEVTZ-tAMTLBT 00. 



Aajr food agwat. 





KnocRabout Comeclx Cyclists 

Ooodrioh Tiraa vaad aselaaitraly •• all af ear bioyolaa. 

Bettina Bruce »<i Companii 

rCrrS?.X. "THE ASHES OF ADAM" 



Larry Smith, Mamia Champion, Sam J. Adams s Comp'y 



IN 



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MaaAg«m«nt LOUIS INTSSI^BY 



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REPRB«EINTATIV& ARTISTS 






HARRY YOKES 



Late of 
Ward and Yokes 









AND 




DALY YOKES 



ORPHEUM, BOSTON, 
Week Oct 15. 



COIVI 



MMagemehf JACK LEVY, 140 West 42d Street, NEW YORK CITY 



THE GREATEST AOT IN YAUDEYILLE 




Carr 



it 



AND COMPANY 

' lt\ ::■:■■ ■■■■ 

The End of the World" 

■■/ BY 

^— MMROM HOFFMAN 



Eitri FiatHri witl "WIRE. ffOUH AHO SORB" CO., Siisii II0I-7. 



••THE 

IN 
TROUSERS*' 

II 



"THE AOT BXAimrUL." 

IRENE LEE 



AMD HZK 



KANDY KIDS" 



WZZX OCT. 1». IMM, 



GOTHAM, BBOOKLTH. 




Harvey 



"THE HUMAN HEBREW HAIR PIN. 



Iir VAVDEVZLLB. 



HELLO. SNITZ! 



GREAT SENSATIONAL NOVELTY rEATURE. 



CONTINO/LA\A/RENCE 

Origiaal up^id»^own iaao«n, all othen danoiay up-gida-down ara pirataa. 



C 
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U 

s 

PONIES AND MAUD. 








KEITH'S PHILADBLFKIA. 



Woodward's Seals 

ORPHEUM, BOSTON Present owner and manager, CLIFF BERZAC 



MAT 



BURT 



WIXON and EATON 



TWO 



AMD A DRTTK IB A WHIRL OF TRAYXBTT 
With Faouraa Raata-Santlay Oa. 



Osrl-fcon iVl3cy, 
IN/laudo Hall & Oo 



P RESEM T IMG "THB M AGPIE AMD THE JAT.'* 

BT EDW. WERTZEL. 

WEEK OCT. II. SHEA'S. TORONTO. 



CHAS. NICHOLS 

Writar and produoar of entlra production of "Star Show Glrii," playiii» tiUa rola af "Dapay Daa." 
SECOND SEASON. MANAGEMENT OF WM. FEBTNESST. 



IN/lildred Val 

Dainty Slnfiny and Danainr Oomadiaaaa. with "OENTURT GIRLS." 



-» TREMENDOUS SUCCESS -»- 



CAMERON *Jio FLANAGAN 



in 



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Five minutes is "one," 14 minutes in the dressing room. The set is novel, origintl and OUR OWN. ANY ONE CAUGHT INFRINGING on any of our righti WILL NOT ^ 

* HAVE TO GO TO LAW BUT TO THE HOSPITAL. 




THE ONLY HEADLINER 
THAT HAS NEVER 
FAILED TO MAKE GOOD 






Avenua'BUFFALO, N. Y. 



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REPRB«BNTATIVB ARTI«T6 



RePRBSBNTATIVB ARTI«T« 



TXS fJUTAILOQVIfT WITX A FEODVOTIOV. 

EdJ.Reynard 

AbA HU FAmou llMkaal«ftl ItfOTM. 
SB Eovto Orwtt Orphcva Boad Ibew. 

IMrMtiOB MABTOI BSOX. 

Gartelle Bros. 



8KATORIALI87VI 

WEEK OCT. 16, ST. LOim, MO. 



DAVE LEWIS 



itatylfRBlft 



nwmk 9Uk 



^: 



'8w«lla from th« Padio' 



•» 




dfld Violette 

ULTKA FASHION PLATES 
WEEK OCT. 16. HABTFORD. CONK. 

™ TOSSING 
[4AUSTINS 

BOOXKD lOLZD TILL YAWAET, INT. 
W— k Oet. 16, Krtth't Fifth At»., Mew York Olty . 

mt. AVD mi. 

HARRY THORNE 

AMD CO. 

FARCEURS 

•tm Uritm BappUy im tk* Imm Old FUt 



PADDY 



lES i IM 

COMEDY BIMOnrO AVD DAVCDTO. 
WMk 0«t. 16, OrplMvin, Beading, Pa. 

MKlei 

KLBITH CIRCUIT 




October 16, Keith and Prootor'a 68th Street. 
Ootober n, Keith's, Boaton. 





AND 



"THE DVTOHMAH AND THE BIDDY." 
Week Oct. l.V-BIJou Theatre, De Kalb, III. 
Week Oct. 22— Family Theatre, Davenport. la. 
Week Oet. 2»— Peoria, lU. 

MAE BILLIARD 

OOMEDIENVE. 
Per. Addraaa, Oara VABIETY. 

LILLIAN SHAW 

Teeal Dlalaot Comadieiiae, Time all flMM. 

WWIt Ort. 16. Empire, fCohoken, H. J. 



DOZVe SOMX FALLS. 




ERKOl 



OBBMAV COMEDIAV 
with "BALTZMOBX BEAUTIES'f 

CHAB. TAYLOB, Mgr. 



CHICK 

THE mnCYOLB COMiaVB 
Xatrodneiiw the SmaUeat Bidar la the Worid 





V "THE LIVDro PVMPKnr* 
Booked aolid Vj Western YandeTlUa 



i mmu 4 



AMEBIOA'S PBXMIEB HOOP BOLLBBS 



TIMB ALL FILLBD 



OBAS. B. 



UU«Z B. 



Colby -- May 

The Veotriloqaist and The Daociflg Doll 

Playing Ratuni DbUa BvarywIiMns 

P«r. A44. M W«lUBgt«B St. BtnuiA W. Oi, 



Chmm (TWO) AUce 

Shrodes 



MTORKING 



KATES 





ECCENTRIC ACROBATS ON THE 0RPHET7M 

CIRCUIT. 

THOSE FITNVY FELLOWS 

BELL&tlENRY 

Bn route, "Mancheater Night 
Owla." Repreacoted bj H. B. 
Marinelll. 

Week Oot. 16, Enson's, Chioago, 
XU. 

THE COMEDY MULE ACT 

VII tlEYE, lENTWOIITII 




iii PETE 



Nettie Vesta 



Singing Comedienne. Addresa care YARIETY. 



BURTON and RANKIN 



VoTolty Military Aot 
Addreaa WM. M0BBI8. 



Have your nrillii Varietv 



BJIlie Ritchie 

and kia ten Engllak Pantomimiata, Starring witk 
Ova Mfll'a "Around tka Cleok." 



BILLIE REEVES 



IrOUIB 



OMACM 



SINON/dARDNER 



Preaenting lOaa Oardner'a lataat 
"Tke New Oeaehman." 

Booked aolld ky MYEBS A 



▼aniaa af 




J i Wooley 



OEBMAV OOMEDIUrS 
ia **A Trl» in an Air Ship. 



•> 



Miss Baffin's 

MONKEYS 

Addreaa VARIETY. 

TEXARKANA 
and WALBY 

BPBIOHTLY SOTTBBETTES ^ 
Who are expert danoera. 

LULU mm 

Knging and Charaoter Oomedienna. 
Big Saooeaa with "PABISIAN BELLES" CO. 

M\ mm 

TKE OBEAT YIOLDTIST, 

Aoeompanied on Piano by hia Siater. 

Booked SoUd Season ieOS-1907. 

HENBY PINCTTS, Manager. 
St. Jamea Bldg.. New York City. 

PATTY-FRANK 
TROUPE 



AOBOBATIO W0HDEB8. 
Mew York Hippodrome. 



THE GAGNOUX 

OBIGINAL 71J0GLEBS AND EQVILIBBISTS. 
Week Oot. 15, Keith, Boiton, Maaa. 

Three 

Sensational 

Zoellers 

WHIRLWIND GYMNASTS. 



rie BM 



and Company 

TZMB ALL FILLED. 

LEAHY BROS. 

; mOMAV BXVO ABTIin. 




Aa "BILL SYKE8' 




In Fred Kamo'a "A Night In the London StanM'*: 
alao the original "drunk" In "A Night at •■ 
BngUah MorIc Hall." 

Week Oot. 16, Orpheum, Brooklyn. 

Sleed's 



MYSTEBIOVB KOTBL* 
Agent MABIHELLL 



JUST BY MYSELF 



(That Bnay Aorohnt.) 
BYBNE BBOS. "•" BELLS. 



Farrell-Taylor Trio 



WILDER 

Per. Add r eaa, Tha FlorluuB. 8M W. 
Vew YerkOlty. 



Marshall 
P. 



Wttk Sl>i 




and CompaBy 
**A Honeymoon In the CntBlillls** 

Week Oct. 16, Lyrio, Eaaton, Pa. 

Neva Aymar 

Featured witk Med WayVun'a 
"BAIN-DEAB8" 

Orpheum Show '0S-'07 

iiiis Family 

In Amerioa until May on Keith Oirooit. LaaAaa 
Hippodrome two montha. .Stoll Tonr to follow. 

Win.B.ARLIN(iTON 



AND 



la (iflSSie HEISTON 

"OOINO TO THB MASQUERADB BALL." 



SHEPPARD CAMP 

"THE hkmi from acoimiA" 



LOUISE DRESSER 

WITH LEW FIELDS' "ABOUT TOWV*' 00. 

rOR SALS 

WIGGINS FARM 

Apply to THE CHADTICB PBIO. 



VARIETY 



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REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



T 



CINCINNATI, WEEK OCTOBER 15 

TBI 

DREAMLAND BURLESQUERS 

U DATB MAIIOirS BU Mmalcal PUj. 
••ROSCLAND*' 

VBdOT tli» IMi^eUon of TOM MIirEB. 

OAST OF CHABA0TER8 
Otcar FlrestelQ. a theatrical manafer, 

Barry Fox 
JoMpb Jacob Cohen, hla principal comedian, 

William Laurence 
Dan Smooth, Stanley's pal, ) 
William Dull, an IhifllshmaB, V .Dare Marlon 
Old John Brown, ) 

Fred Stanley, Smooth's pal... George Doraey 
Gbarlea Bentley, an heir to millions, 

Mark Thompson 
Captain Kldd, not the original ... Fred Barnes 

Oonstabla Eyan Qeorgs EL Plire* 

Conatable Macadoo J. J. Doberty 

Constable Ketchem Ike Wall 

Dabqr Dash, Flresteln's leadlof lady, 

Aggie Behler 

Violet Bose Petri Mdnotta 

Bose Violet Coral Melnotte 

Lilly Bloanom Adehilde Fell 

Shorty, a telegraph lad By Himself 

Soubretteti. Sight Seekers, Sailors, Pedea- 
trlans and Others Toe Nameroos to Mention. 
ACT I — On Broadway. 

During this act the following musical num- 
bers are Introduced: "Brerything'a Huatle on 
Broadway," "Duty of an Officer," "Joseph 
Jacob Cohen," "I Want to be an Actress," 
"Hannah from Louisiana," "Time Will Tell," 
"Oood-bye Dear Old Broadway." 



Olio. 

THOMPSON * LAVBENCK. 



Singing ComtMllana. 

THE SAILOR BOYS 

BUOU COMEDY TRIO 

Q«orge L. Dorsey — George H. Piero^-' 

J. J. Doherty. 

In Novelty, Comedy and Harmony. 

Walk—Walk— Walk. 
DAVE MARION AND HIS BIO COMPANY 

In "East ade Life." 

HARRY FOX, tbo EBtortainOT, 

And the Twin Slstera, 

MELNOTTE, 

California's Favorlteg. 

ACT II, SCENE 1— A Path In Rowland. 
SCENE 2— Rnseland. 

During Act II. the following original mu- 
sical numbers are introduced: "Roseland," 
"Rose. Rose. Rose, My Little Rose." "Good 
Old Uncle Sam." "Where Am IT" 

The production staged under the personal 
direction of- Dave Marion. 

BBRT J. KBNDRICK Manager 



EXOKT Of LZMX. 



"The Merry Maidens" 

OKAS. W. DANIELS. Maaagw. 

»»> Jehnson I Jerge**" 

Who Write and Sing Thair Own FarodlM. 



TKW MARYXLLOUS 

FERRELL BROS. 

In Their Latest Creation, 
"FLIPS AND FLOPS. 



PATTI CARNEY 

In Bopartoiro of Soaga. 

SAM RICE 

And Hla "PEEZY-WEEZY GIRLS." 

EDYTH MURRAY 

The Toy Artist. 

'<» Ward I Raynor-^"" 

Comedy Singing and Talking. 

BURTON and BURTON 

And Their Mualoal Inatruments. 



rRED 



LILLIAN 



RUSSEIL AND HELD 

SINGERS AND DAVCEBS. 
Beat Dressed Act in VaudoTllle. Booked Solid. 

Hacker-Lester 

Trio 



COMEDY CYCLISTS. 



Booked Solid. 



THE BRIGHTEST SPOKE IN THE WHEEL. 



"^/>e Parisian Belles" Co 

JOHN GRIEVES. MOR. 

Preaenting the heat of all two-aot oomedies, 
"A PAIR OF PEACHES." or "MT WITB WON'T LET MX." 



BERT— 



DALY and O'BRIEN 

THOSE FUNNY TANGLEFOOT DANCERS. 

VOMERS and LAW 



— FRED 



THE AUTOMANIACS. 



ARTHUR YULE 

Mnac. 



Mildred Grover 

SINGER OF COON SONGS. 

LultA Kee^an 

CHARACTER COMEDIENNE. 



Alice Warren 

- as "MRS. PEACH." 

R.ebe Donaldson 

; CHARACTERISTIC DANCE ARTIST. 



SHEPPARD CAMP 

LEADING COMEDIAN. 



JUST TO ENCOURAGE THE LAUGHING HABIT. 



WALTER 



NATALIE 



HAWLEY and OLCOH 

PRESENTING MR. HAWLEY'8 COMEDY, "JUST 

MARRIED A WE^K." 
A clean, homelike plajlet; a sure laugh getter. 

ALL AGENTS. 

AGENTS. ATmmONI 

ROLTARE 



Wltk hi* mmtHml 
flag produetiea— flags of all nation a st s t pra> 
seated In VaudsTilla. All time open for New 
York datea, including Sundays. 

(Borne addrrsa. 21« W. SOtli St. Pbooa 
aaos ElwrsMe. ) 

JEANETTE DUPRE 

.Tt. 



RICE & PREVOST 



IN 



BUMPTY BUMPS 



Arthur J. 



Miss Grace 



MeWATERS a.« HSON 

In a Spectacular Musical Comedy 
"VAUDBVIbLB" 

Orpheum Theatre. Week Oct. 15. travel ing. New 

Orleans. Week Oct. 8t, Olympio. Chioago. DL 

Week Oct. 89, Haymarket. Chicago. HI. 

JACK INORWORTH 

WITH LSW FIKLDt' "ABOVT TOWN" CO. 



T. W. DINKINS 

Innocont Maids 

I GUIS HARRIS. MANAGER. 



NAT. 



FIELDS and flELDS 

OOMXDIAlrS AMD PRODUCERS. 

Hiny THE SEYONS ^b 

In thalr laughable sketok 
V "THE CENSUS TAKER." . v 



J AS. 



Hughes Ml Hazelton 

la thalr travesty on 
"DAMON AND PTTKIAS.'* 



Norton iDd La Triska 

la thalr novelty oraatioa, 

"MESSENGER. CLOWN AND TKE HUMAN 
DOLL." 

ENNA ONEil 

THE CALIFORNLA BARITONE. 



"THOROUOHBREDS" 



WASH MARTIN. 



MANAGER. 



MLLE. LA TOSKA 

. ; CONTORTIONIST. 

HENRY and FRANCIS 

IN THE "NEW JANITOR." 

NIBLO and RILEY 

THE WOOD DEALER AND THE KID. 

Washburn and Flynn 

THE ANIMATED TWO 

CHAS. DOUGLAS 

COMEDIAN. 

HARRY McAYOY 

COMEDLLN. 

SAM SCHILLER 

MUSICAL DIRECTOR. 



And 25 Prancing Fillies 



(^.f-S^niQ 



*^HX KASROW rKLLXR." 



If 



Dave Noy^Hn 

TBI MAN WITH MANY VOICMi. 

Keith-Prootor Cirouit. 



Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 8. 

mm. DooDU (IRIS 



SOL MEYERS. MANAGER. 



PRESENTING TWO BURLESQUES WRIT- 
TEN AND STAGED BY JAMES F. LEONARD. 

JAS. r. LEONARD 

ASSISTED 9Y MISS CLARA WHITNE Y 

BILLY HART 

The orlgiaal Human Ventrlloouiat flgurs, aa- 

sistad hy Anna Yale and Maria JanetM, 

in a real oomedy act "A Playthtiiff." 

LAWRENCE CRANE 

"THE IRISR MAGICIAN." 

Aaaiated hy May Crawford h Co. latrodnoliv 

hla latest iUusion "Cremation." 

JAMES AND DAVIS 

"THE DIXIE BOYS." 
We Talk, Sing and Some Mora. 

McDeVlTT and KELLY 

ECCENTRIC DANCERS AND COMEDIANS. 



MILWAUKEE, WEEK OCTOBER 14. 

"HKiU SCHOOL dlRlS" 



aUEENS OF BURLESQUE. 



CHAS. 



JOHN 



Burke Bros. 

Throw away your danoing ahoea. We are oom> 

;;.•.■ ing Eaat. •; -•';■ 

P. S — We hotb wear tighta. 
MELANCHOLY DESTROYERS. 

BIJOU 

COMEDY FOUR 

M. Meehan, J. Nelaon, W. Oawold, P. Depew. 
**Don*t Get Excitad.** 



GEO. 



LILLA 



Brennans 

Burlesque Singing and Talking. 
P. S.— We don't wear tights. 



CLOSING THE OLIO. 



WILLARD 



ALICJ 



r„° HUGHES 

"From the Bowery to Broadway." Comedy 
Singing and Talking. 14 Minutes in One. 



SPECIAL FEATURE. 



Hilda Carle 

AND HER 

12—RED RAVENS~12 



STUART BARNES 

DirwttioB GEO. HOMANS. 




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Conceded to Be the best and most original 
77 production ever presented on the Orpheum 
.Circuit where it is now playing. 

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Big llluminaled Scenes 

ARTISTIC - REALISTIC - ORIGINAL - NOVEL - COMPLETE 

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All little Misses of sweet 1 6. 'Youthful, Charming, Talented and Singers. 

> Unexcelled vivacity and brilliancy. i 7 

All music (New) written by Tim B. McMahon - 




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LOS ANG£LE$. CAL., weeR Oct. 1.' "OMAHA, NE.B.. Nov. 12. - — 
SALT LAK£ CITY. UTAH. Oct. 22. ; KANSAS CITY. MO.. Nov. 19. 
DENVER. COLO.. Oct. 29. NEW ORLEANS. LA.. Nov. 26. 

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• THIRD BIG CIRCUIT IN VIEW. 

From a heretofore unheard of quarter 

Rp})earK a third giant to be reckoued with 

I in the vaudeville war now in profpress. So 

I quietly and secretly has he been laying out 

> his plan of cnrnpaign that it U doubtful 

-. if the slightest inkling has been known 

I of bia intention to invade the vaudeville 
: field. . ■'■; \ ■■ ./••v^' 

i For the past- year or two "Mose** Reis. 
5 proprietor of the Reis circuit of legitimate 
i theatres, Yms had In view a scheme for 
I* retiring from business and devoting the 

i remainder of hix life to the enjoyment of 
^ his huge but hard-earned wealth. Some 
{ time ago he had a series of interviews with 
) Frank Burt, who represented Stair & Hav- 
lin, with a view to selling^ to the magnates 
of the popular-priced theatrical business his 
equity in the Reis circuit for a sum said 
Co be in the neighborhood of $400,000. Not 
I arriving at an understanding, Reis set 
I about to form a corporation and dispose 
, of the sock in it to the investing public. 
• In the event thi^t the individual he is now 



in daily conf^ren^p with, and who is re- 



» ferred to above, does not take over the 

,iRei8 circuit, Reis is prepared to put Into 

effect the stock company scheme. 

j It \r more than likely, however, fiiat 

'within the next fortiiight or so a well- 

Iknown theatrical man, amply financed, will 

jtake over the entire Reis circuit of some 

thirty houses in Important Eastern cities 

and establish an Independent vaudeville 

.tour on his own account. As no absolute 

l&ansfer of the properties has yet been 

^niade, verification of the above can not be 

)had at this time. 



RYAN GOING AHEAD. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 10. 
There is no longer any doubt in this 
idty that John J. Ryan is going ahead with 
)his vaudeville plans, as outlined, with a 
, few additions. 

On Wednesday night last at Buffalo, N. 
v., Mr. Ryan held a conference with his 

(associates in the vaudeville business and 
offered to purchase their interest. The re- 
Isult is not known. Ryan will, however, 
^proceed with' tlie Buffalo vaudeville the- 
.atre, building on the site h^ld there. 
It St. Louis, Detroit and one t)ther un- 
|[known city will' also have Ryan theatres. 
jThis with Cincinnati, Erie, Pa., and proba- 
'bly Cleveland, O., will give him a circuit 

of six houses. 

. It would cause but little surprise here 

♦did Mr. Ryan secure the Shubert house 

in St. Louis for his vaudeville venture. 

What his plans are for Detroit have hot 

become public. 

J The general impression is that if any of 
.the Shubert theatres are placed on the 
eiarket Ryan will put in a bid for first 

<^oice. 



EDOUIN OPENS DECEMBER 3. 

I Willie Edouin, the English comedian. 

I opens his American vaudeville tour in 

^New York on December 3. 

Mr. Edouin has been engaged for eight 
weeks at a salary of $1,150 a wef>k. He 

.i% said to have been offered $1,500 for the 
same time by another foreign agent who 
could not give proof of the fulfillment of 
Che contract if made, and Mr. Edouin de- 

.<3ded to accept what was in sight. Gif- 
ford C, Fischer is the comedian's agent on 
this side, having induced him to make the 
contract for an American appearance. 



WESTERN FILLS OPEN TIME. 

Within ten davs at the most formal an- 
nouncenient will be made by the Western 
Burlesque Wheel that theatres playing 
their shows will be in operation at Sthe- 
nectady, N. Y., and Hartford, Conn. Three 
nights each will be devoted to the attrac- 
tions and this closes up the open week 
which is at present caused between the 
route from Pittsburg to Washington. 

One-night stands mostly in Pennsylvania 
have been played for that time. 

Companies are being formed to take over 
the renovated places in the respective 
cities and the companies will manage the 
houses. 

Another week on the Western Wheel 
may be added by February or March 
through the erection of the proposed new 
theatre on upper Broadway, Brooklyn, in 
opposition to Hyde & Behman's Caiety in 
the near vicinity. Negotiations which 
were in progress between the Wheel and 
that firm prior to the death of Henry W. 
Behman might have obviated the necessity 
of the new hou^e, bul Mr. Behman's dc 
mise has caused the executives of the op- 
position Wheel to decide that building will 
commence within thirty days provided 
that before that time no overtures are re- 
ceived from the Hyde & Behman firm look- 
ing toward a joining of their theatres with 
the Western Wheel. 



EASTERN INCREASES CIRCUIT. 

Within the last few weeks the Columbia 
Amusement Company has strengthened its 
circuit (the Eastern Burlesque Wheel) by 
the acquisition of two new houses. These 
are located in Dayton, Ohio, and Louis- 
ville, Ky. The latter deal has not yet 
been completed, according to the state- 
ment of a member of the Columbia Com- 
pany, but report has it that it will be 
within a few days. 

The new Dayton burlesque house is the 
Park Theatre, which catered to vaudeville 
under the management of H. H. Lamkin 
until that manager contracted a severe 
case of cold feet under the opposition of 
the Keith people and gave up the ship. 
The transfer is understood to have been 
brought about by Hurtig & Seamon, who 
are on friendly relations with Lamkin 
Some alterations will be necessary before 
the house will be ready for occupancy. 
It played Stair & Havlin melodramas be- 
fore Lamkin got it and was known as the 
Star. 

The Louisville house is understood to be 
the Bijop, now the property of Col. John 
D. Hopkins. It has been known that this 
establishment was on the market, the 
Colonel having expressed a determination 
to give up vaudeville and devote his ener- 
gies entirely to the conduct of his chain 
of summer parks. Negotiations looking to 
the securing of this theatre by the Co- 
lumbia people are still pending. 



VICTORIA OPENS AT COLONIAL. 

The return engagement of Vesta Vic- 
toria in New York will be commenced at 
Williams' Colonial Theatre on January 
14. It is barely possible that her opening 
may be shifted to Boston. 

The weekly salary of $1,500 to be paid 
her by Mr. Williams will render Miss Vic- 
toria indifferent as to where it takes 
place. 



GILMER COMING ON MISSION. 

London, Oct. 12. 
Albert Gilmer, late director of the Ox- 
ford and Tlvoli music halls, is about to 
sail for America on a mission fraught 

« 

with my.itery. It is intimated that the 

Warings, directors of the contemplated in- 
dependent muxic hall in Oxford street, have 
placed Gilmer in chargp and that his trip 
to America is for the purpose of entering 
into a booking alliance with one of the 
two big booking offices in that country. 






INTERNATIONAL'S OFFICE COMING. 

. Variety's Chicago Office, 

, ^ , 79 S. Clark St., 

Oct. 19. , 

Despite the various conflicting reports 
that the general offices would and would 
not move to New York City, that event 
will happen in November. 

Chris O. Brown will be the manager of 
the Metropolitan headquarters, and the 
present ofiTice of the Sullivan-Considine 
circuit, now in charge of Bernstein A 
Ely, will be placed under his supervision 
also. The entire Elastern booking busi- 
ness of the two circuits will be conducted 
from that office. What provisions have 
been made for the retention of Messrs. 
Bernstein and Ely in the new offices are 
not known. 



BAY CITY QUITS. 

The Alvarado Theatre in Bay City, 
Mich., throws up the vaudeville sponge to- 
night. Under the local management of 
Sam Marks it did not attract the masses 
in suflficient number to lead Mr. Marks, 
whose theatrical experience has been lim- 
ited,, into believing that he had a paying 
venture. 

The house has been booked in conjunc- 
tion with the H. H. Lamkin houses in 
Saginaw, Mich., Toledo and Dayton, Ohio. 

Mr. Lamkin having disposed of his inter- 
est in the Saginaw and Dayton houses, 
also giving up the Toledo theatre to the 
Shuberts, places that erratic manager once 
again on the outside of the vaudeville 
fence. 



LENDS JACK NORWORTH. 

Owing to the absence of a desirable part 
for Jack Norworth in the new burlesque 
to be put on by the Lew Fields company at 
the Herald Square Theatre, Mr. Norworth 
will have about twelve weeks vacation, 
which he will improve by playing vaude- 
ville time, having been lent by Mr. 
Fields to the Morris office for that pur- 
I)ose. Norworth will open at the Colonial 
Theatre in this city October 29, playing 
all the time in the near vicinity of New 
York. , •■ ■ . 

Louise Dresser, Mr. Norworth^s wife, re- 
mains with the Fields show, and Mr. Nor- 
worth will return to the cast at the ex- 
piration of his temporary vaudeville tour. 



KEITH BOOKS ARNOLD DALY. 

The United Booking Agency on Wednes- 
day signed a blanket contract with Arnold 
Daly for a vaudeville tour of not less than 
twenty weeks, opening on the Keith Cir- 
cuit October 29 with a one-act play by 
George Bernard Shaw. This is the first 
time that Mr. Daly or a Shaw play will 
be shown in vaudeville. 



LANGTRY PLAYS HARLEM FOR 
KEITH. 

Score one for the Keith-Proctbr com- 
bination in the matter of corralling Mrs. 
Langtry for their houses — more particu> 
larly her appearance at the Harlem Opera 

ouse prior to the beginning of her three 
weeks' engagement with Percy Williams. 

When Williams was informed that she 
intended to appear at the Harlem Opera 
House before playing for him it was origi- 
nally his intention to seek to restrain her 
but he eventually concluded not to inter- 
fere. 

Mr. Williams had consulted his attor- 
neya regarding injunction proceeding^, and 
his lawyers spoke about the matter to the 
Keith counsel. Williams was informed 
that did he apply for a restraining order 
against the Jersey Lily's appearance at the 
Harlem Opera House, the defence would 
be to the motion that the contracts en- 
tered into between Mrs. Langrty and him- 
self were illegal by reason of containing 
the Sunday clause calling for her services 
on the Sabbath. 

Not caring to go into this phase of the 
question, and after investigating through 
a special inspector the amount of patron- 
age Mrs. Langtry was drawing to the 
Fifth Avenue Theatre, Williams decided 
that the game was not worth the candle. 

Just what course he will pursue he re- 
fuses to make known for publication, but 
it is undoubtedly his intention to cancel 
the three weeks contract he holds. 

There is little likelihood in that event 
that Mrs. Langtry will take the matter 
into court, as she has probably been guar- 
anteed by the Keith people against any 
loss she might sustain through playing in 
Harlem prior to her Williams time. Keith, 
as an inducement to her to take this 
course, has contracted to book her time 
solidly in America until next February. 
In order to do this the Western Vaudeville 
Association will play her in its houses 
after the Keith tour, opening at the Ma- 
jestic in Chicago and carrying her over 
the Orpheum circuit. J. J. Murdock Is 
even now engaged in laying out the West- 
ern route. 



CHEAP POLICY AT HIPPODROBIE. 

All is not serene in the conduct of the 

« 

New York Hippodrome. Business at the 
huge establishment has fallen off to an 
appreciable extent and Max Anderson, who 
exercises an eagle-eyed scrutiny over the 
financial affairs of the place, insists on a 
retrenchment in the matter of expendi- 
tures. 

As a consequence there will be a cur- 
tailment of the stage show until the new 
production is seen. The circus part of 
the performance has already been cheap- 
ened and Anderson is now Igoking around 
for some of the smaller acrobatic acts. 



LILLIAN WON'T COME BACK. 

It would appear that the vaudeville 
agents who have sought to lure Lillian 
Russ&U back into the continuous on the 
strength of her failure in "Barbara's Mil- 
lions" are to be disappointed. The an- 
nouncement is made that the fair one Is to 
have a new musical comedy for production 
within a few weeks. Meanwhile she will 
continue to hold forth In her present 
vehicle. Dorothy Russell-Einstein, her 
daughter, however, has expressed her de- 
termination to remain In the vaudeville 
lists. 



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Vol. IV. 



No. 6. 



Myers ft Keller are now booking seven 
Sunday shows in Creater New York. 



Fannie and Mollie Williams are in bur- 
lesque, having joined the "Runaway Girls 
company. 



»♦ 



The Sully Family will join a farce 
comedy after their appearance at Pastor's 
in November. 



After six weeks over the Williams cir- 
cuit Billy Clifford goes starring under his 
own management. 



Greene and Werner are booked for the 
Palace Theatre, London, for a few weeks 
during the winter. 



Martin Beck will play on the Orpheum 
circuit next season Ferrero and his musical 
dog and the Eight Picchianis. 



Samuel W. Gumperts has postponed bis 
contemplated trip to Europe in search of 
novelties for next summer at Dreamland. 



Jacobs and Van Tyle and El Nino and 
Eddy replaced John and Carrie Mack and 
the Cary Cotter Trio at Pastor's this week. 



. «. » 4 



Loqise Allen Collier will leave the cast 
of "About Town" to come into vaudeville 
with "Not Far from Broad wny," a sketch. 



Thomas Barrett and Sadie Libbie, both 
of the "Merry Maidens" burlesque com- 
pany, were married at Duluth, Minn., 
Oct. 9. .;:; . .■■■■■.-■. :.: 



Jean Bedini has engaged Huston and 
Dallas to appear in his new vaudeville 
presentment, "The Eleven JV 



Trixie Friganza will have one more week 
in vaudeville before she joins "The Prince 
of Pilsen" company in New York. 



Sam A. Scribner went to Buffalo in re- 
sponse to a dispatch bearing the informa- 
tion that his daughter had died there Sun- 
day night. 



Gennaro*s Venetian Band of twenty-four 
pieces is in New York, ready to play 
vaudeville dates wherever obtained by M. 
S. Bentham. 



Ethel Fairbanks, formerly a member of 
Lulu Glaser's comp my, is seeking time for 
singing act displ «ying her talents. 



Tudor Cameron, of Cameron and Flana- 
gan, and Bonnie Gaylord, "the girl from 
Posey County/' were married in Cincin- 
nati this week. 



The Great Goldin Troupe of Russian 
dancers will play a couple of weeks around 
town prior to a long trip on the Sullivan- 
Considine circuit. 



Trainor and Dale, late of the "Bon 
Tons" burlesque company, will "try out" 
their comedy sketch at the Murray Hill 
Theatre Sunday. 



The Colby Family cancelled Poli's, 
Springfield, Mass., this week owing to the 
illness of Mrs. Colby. She will be able to 
play next week. 



Fred Vogenltz and Jessie Measer, mem- 
bers of the La Sells Troupe, playing with 
the "Star Show Girls," were married in 
Brooklyn last week. 



Charles Barton, general manager for 
Gus Hill, was back at his desk this week 
after an illness that kept him confined to 
his home several days. 



The New Circle (Western P>urlcsquo 
Wheel) at Sixtieth street and Broadway 
will have a seating capacity of 1,800. Jt 
is scheduled to open Monday. 



contracted for, even though he accepted 
contracts from William Morris before 
Keith engaged him. 



Barney Gerard, manager of Miner's 
"Bohemians," is now also the director of 
Joe Gans, the pugilist, who is a Miner 
feature in the burlesque organizations on 
the Western Wheel. 



Lillian DeLee, formerly with Brockman, 
Mack and Belmont, having replaced Miss 
Belmont in that act, will play vaudeville 
alone as a single singer hereafter. 



8ie Hassan Ben Ali, who has a practical 
monopoly of the Arabian acts in America, 
sailed on the Deutschland on Thursday to 
secure a number of foreign novelties. He 
is due back on November 10. 



A new act opens in Wilmington October 
29. It is under the direction of Frank 
Sheridan and contains four men and as 
many women. It is to be styled "That 
Octet." 



Alfred Butt, manager of the Palace 
Theatre in London, threatens to sue Va- 
riety through its London representative, C. 
C. Bartram, for libel. Something in Va- 
riety displeased Mr. Butt Ha'a ao . very 
sensitive. "■■■ "■■' ■''" '-'\-. "''■'■..' '■■■'■■.'-''■''./ 



Bransby Williams, the English imper- 
sonator, says he will return to England 
positively on November 6. Engagements 
on the other side forbid Mr. Williams re- 
maining here longer. 



Two of Braatz's dogs were mysteriously 
poisoned last Saturday at the Orpheum 
Theatre in Brooklyn. It is surmised that 
the animals were allowed to roam around 
the back yards and found death in their 
wanderings. 



Blossom Seeley and Mabelle Darr, a "sis- 
ter act" now touring with "Gay Masque - 
raders," would like very much to play in 
South Africa. The young women are of 
the opinion that their efforts in that coun- 
try would be greatly appreciated. 



Juno Salmo expected to return to Eng- 
land the latter part of this month. He 
has postponed his return date in order 
that thirty weeks of time obtained by M. 
S. Bentham for him over the Keith and 
Orpheum circuits may be played. 



On account of the Morris opposition to 
Poll in Springfield, Mass., this week, Ro- 
land West, who was to have been the head- 
liner of the Poli bill, was transferred to 
Pastor's, New York, and "The Futurity 
Winner" substituted at Springfield. 



Thos. Q. Seabrooke and Pauline Hall 
are not partners in the new vaudeville 
combination the stars have formed. Miss 
Mall is engaged by Mr. Seabrooke, who 
owns the act, at a weekly salary. The 
songbird preferred not to take any risk. 



Edgar Atchinson-Ely will be seen to- 
morrow night at the Majestic Theatre in 
a series of songs and dances in which he 
has been party of the first part in Broad- 
way productions. One of them is "The 
Rigadoon," which was uncovered in "The 
Mocking Bird" with Mal)elle Oilman. 



After playing in a full sot for years 
Kiuh jind Harriett never drejuned they 
coiiM pass through .safely iu "one." Last 
\ve<'k at a Brooklyn house they did that 
in an emerjjpncy. Mr. Earle is uow think- 
ing: of having a siK'cial drop and using 
that jmsition altogether. 



Leah Russell has been booked for the 
Orpheum circuit, commencing October 29, 
in a revised version of "The Belle of the 
Ghetto," which she showed recently at a 
Sunday concert in the American Theatre. 
She has also signed contracts for nine 
weeks abroad next summer, beginning at 
the Palace, London. ; ,* 



The ManelloMarnitz Troupe sailed for 
Europe on Thursday to fulfil a series of 
Continental booking's, opening immedi- 
ately in Paris. They return here next 
spring to play a summer's en;,'ap'ment 
with the Rinj^ling Brothers' Circus and 
open on the Orpheum circuit December, 
1907. 



No further progress will be made in the 
proposed alterations of the Fifth Avenue 
Theatre looking to a removal of the main 
entrance to the corner of Broadway and 
Twenty-eighth street. The Keith-Proctor 
company now shows a disposition to rent 
out the store and let their present entrance 
do for the time being. 



It is a long way from the Colonial The- 
atre in New York to the Gotham in the 
far end of Brooklyn, but Iloey and Lee, 
the Hebrew impersonators, are making the 
trip twice daily this week, playing both 
houses. They close at the Colonial at 
8:46 in the evening, reaching the Grotham 
by subway and elevated at 1) :55. 



Ferry Corwey, "the nmsieal clown," 
will probably play the Keith time he has 



Bowers, Walters and Crooker, "the three 
Rubes," who worked continuously during 
the summer, have a novel finish for their 
act which will be first shown when the 
trio plays Keeney's in Brooklyn on October 
29. Mr. Bowers is speculating how long 
it will be after the first showing before the 
idea is stolen, as he states it is a novel one. 



The Great Chevalier (I)e Loris) prides 
himself upon an accurate aim with the 
rifle. The other day in discussing his act 
with Percy Williams the manager said, 
"Do j'ou think you can shoot? I'll shoot 
you for a hundred dollars." De Loris, 
highly excited, posted the money and in- 
vited Williams up to his studio for the 
test. "All right," says Williams, "I'll go 
up and promise not to shoot you above the 
knee." 



John W. Ran.sone broke down in the 
middle of his specialty at the Alhambra 
Wednesday night. He ha<l been upon the 
stage about three minutes when his voice 
suddenly gave out and he was forced to 
bow himself off tlie stage. Mr. Ransone 
simply announced to liis audience that he 
could not continue owing to the failure of 
his voice. The orchestra finished out the 
tinic of the act. He did not return to 
the bill during the week, being replaced 
by Julius Tannen. . 



Helen (JneM. wlio \\i\s become widelv 
known anmnu vaudevillian.s thronsh her 
hriKhMy written articles in The Morning 
Telecraph. will shortly publish in book 
form the series of stories which appeared 
in that p.ni)er under the headiti); of "On 
the One .Ni^'ht Slands" and 'Mn the Actors' 
Boanlinu Hotiso." 



When Henry I/ce played the Columbia, 
Cincinnati, last week it occurred to him as a 
bit of line diplomacy to run in an imi>er- 
sonation of Congressman Nicholas Long- 
worth, the pride of Cincinnati, during his 
act. He approached the OmgresRman by 
mail with a request for permission to 
<lu[)li<ate him on the stage, at the same 
time inviting Mr. and Mr-*. Longworth to 
occupy a box Saturday evening and see 
the result. The son in-law of the Presi- 
dent decline<l to have himself imperson. 
ated. 



VARIBTY 



EASTERN HAS CHICAGO LOCATION. 

Variety's Chicago Office, ' 
79 S. aarkSt., 

:. ■. Oct. 19. ••. 

- L. Lawrence Weber and Jules Hurtig of 
New York, representing the Columbia 
Amusement Company for the Eastern 
Burlesque Wheel, were in Chicago this 
week and purchased an option on property 
at Clark and Madisojti streets. This is the 
location Mr. Hurtig and Sam Scribner 
looked over when here last summer. 

If the deal is finally put through the 
Eastern Wheel will have a new Chicago 
house for its burlesque attractions on this 
spot. The building will be a combination 
skyscraper and theatre. The Columbia 
Amusement Company insists upon having 
^JL new Chicago theatrej and if the present 
. negotiations fall through another site wiir 
be selected. ^ 

Sam A. Scribner, an officer in the Colum- 
bia Amusement Company and one of its 
incorporators, was approached for a con- 
firmation of the above but denied the ac- 
curacy of the Chicago reports. 



BIG BURLESQUE RECEIPTS. 

The house record for a long while goes 
to Thiese's "Wine, Woman and Song" bur- 
lesque company, which played to $4,700 
last week at Miner's Bowery theatre. 
That show opens the Circle Theatre oif 
Monday. 

The "Trans-Atlantic Burlesquers." now 
playing at The Gaiety, Williamsburg, 
broke the record of the Star Theatre in 
Brooklyn last weiek, the gross receipts for 
the time having been $5,604.80. 



SPARROW SmT ENDED. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 19. 

A circuit court order dismissing the in- 
junction application of the J. B. Sparrow 
Theatrical and Amusement Company 
against the Empire Circuit and several 
individuals brought to an end this week 
the long litigation between the two bur- 
lesque wheels. 

The case was opened in 1904 before the 
Introduction of two rival wheels and was 
caused, it was charged in the moving 
papers, by the Empire Circuit people re- 
fusing to play the Sparrow houses in 
Canada because that concern had in its em- 
ploy a certain manager to whom the Em- 
pire Circuit w£w not friendly. Upon this 
allegation the charge of conspiracy was 
made. A temporary injunction was grant- 
ed against the defendants. Since then the 
case is said to have been settled out of 
court and the injunction has therefore 
been dissolved. 

The case was begun here December 3, 
1004, when the defendants were attending 
an Empire Circuit meeting. 



BIUSTN'T BE NAUGHTY. 

Chicago, Oct. 19. 

The managers <>f the Eastern burlesque 
attractions here have been notified that 
detectives are watchin;; the performances 
at the Gaiety Theatre, Detroit, Mich., and 
warned them afjjainst su«;^cstive situations 
and improper use of lan<;ua^e on the stajro 
there. 

It is said that the Gaiety nearly lo^t 
its license through "Hell" having been 
used on the stage. In the future the show 
will have to be toned to suit the "puri- 
fiers." 



LONDON TROUBLED OVER BARRING. 

■ " London, Oct. 10. 

"We don't want to fight, but by jingo 
if we do," appears to be the attitude of 
the artists concerning the "barring" clause. 
Meantime the managers themselves have 
rolled up their sleeves and are at it ham- 
mer and tongs. .:/-;, 

Payne stopped John Lawson from play- 
ing the London ghorediteh, a milp and a 
half from the Paragon, but Managers Bur- 
ney and Richards refused to let the ele- 
phant walk over them, and rejoined by 
seven injunctions stopping six stars at 
the Paragon, Marie Lloyd, Poluski Broth- 
ers, Ernest Shand, Jessie Preston, Mai- 
dee Scott and Orpheus. 

Papers were suddenly served at six 
P^clock Monday evening, and things for 



a while were fn a plreii^y^ pickfe,~tfe~itt-^ 
ing manager making a speech to explain 
the little trouble in his sheepfold. Tele- 
phone bells rang wildly, and hurry calls 
to the other syndicate halls brought some 
very good acts to the rescue. 

Managing Director Payne called a coun- 
cil of war to cuss and discuss the barring, 
and the tip is that the famous syndicate 
king has decided to stick to his text. We 
are likely now to see a big game between 
fighting rows of managers, with artists for 
the footballs. ' : 



ENGLAND WANTS THE FAYS. 

Negotiations are once more on foot — or 
in the air — looking to an engagement in 
England of The Fays. ETver since their 
big hit at the Victoria Theatre last spring 
and their re-engagement for the summer 
season on the roof of that house they 
have been besieged with proffers of Euro- 
pean time, but not at the figure for which 
they would be willing to go. Their salary 
in New York is $1,600 per ./eek and more 
on tour, and unless an offer equally allur- 
ing is forthcoming they will remain in the 
United States. 



CISSY LOFTUS' SIX WEEKS. 

Cissy Loftus is in negotiation for a tour 
of the Keith circuit for six weeks prior to 
her opening at the Weber Music Hall when 
Joe Weber puts on his new piece. She is 
prohibited, however, from playing any of 
these six weeks in New York. If the deal 
is oonsummatod Miss Loftus will receive 
$1,000 a week. 



KRAUS WILL SELECT ACTS. 

George Kraus is quoted as declaring tha! 
hereafter he himself will do the picking of 
the acts that are put into the shows play- 
ing his house in the city, instead of having 
them selected at the Western Wheel head- 
quarters, as has been the custom. 



NOTHING SURE IN JERSEY CITY. 

The latest announcement of the Keith 
office is that the hoodooed house in Jersey 
City will be opened for business on No- 
vember 15. This is the fourth time the 
opening has been postponed. 

The last time the set date fell down was 
when the ironworkers' union refused to 
longer work on the ground that the iron work 
had been made by non-union men. Since 
then practically no work has been done on 
the building. There is some doubt even 
whether the house will be completed bv 
the middle of next month. 



SUNDAY CONCERTS AT ACADEMY. 

Commencing Sunday night, October 28/ 
the Academy of Music will give Sunday 
concerts, managed by William A. Brady 
and Jos. Hart. The prices will range from 
25 cents to $1. The seating capacity is 
2,500. :■ •/•^ .--- 

Bookings for the shows may be made 
by Mr. Hart, or some agent yet to be 
selected, with the probability if an agent 
in given the job, that M. S. Bentham will be 
selected. 

Previous attempts to run opposition on 
Sundays in the vicinity of the Dewey The- 
atre have met with strenuous opposition, 
inspired as a rule, although it has not 
happened often, by Senator Tim Sullivan, 
one of the Dewey's managers and some- 
thing of a political power around Tammany 
Hall; - 



LEAVITT AFTER DE VRIES. 

' ' London, Oct. 12. 

M. B. Leavitt has secured a judgment 
against Henri DeVries, the Dutch pro- 
tean artist, for $2,500 for commissions al- 
leged to be due for booking DeVries over 
the Proctor circuit iu the Slates last year. 

After judgment was rendered I^eavitt 
visited Amsterdam in an endeavor to col- 
lect, but DeVries sailed for America the 
day Leavitt arrived. Leavitt declares that 
he intends going immediately to New York 
and will attach all moneys due the protean 
artist on his forthcoming starring tour. 

There is still a hitch in the acceptance 
of a suitable play for DeVries' starring 
tour, but it is likely that, with some 
changes, the play by the DeMille Brothers 
will be selected. The Dutch actor has re- 
ceived an offer for a vaudeville tour at a 
salary of $2,000 a week, and it was inti- 
mated that this amount might be increased 
somewhat. 



STRICT SUNDAYS IN BROOKLYN. 

During the jwrformance at the Novelty 
Theatre in Brooklyn last Sunday evening, 
Charles Williams, manager of the bouse, 
was arrested on a warrant sworn out by 
a minister in the "Baby Borough." The 
same happening took place at the Amphion, 
where Manager Schlesinger was taken 
into custody. 

A hearing set down for the middle of 
the week was adjourned. The agitation 
caused by the church element on the other 
side of the bridge may cause the Sunday 
concerts there to carry only "straight" 
acts until the storm blows over. 



"ROCKING CHAIR" ACT READY. 

The big English act known as "The 
Hocking Chair Girls," which was the fea- 
ture of a London production last spring, 
is in New York rehearsing preparatory to 
its first public appearance on this side next 
Monday, the 22d, at the Richmond The- 
atre, North Adams, Mass., the house re- 
cently leased by J. B. Morris. 

M. Shea, the agent, brought the act over 
and it will travel under his charge. 



HARRY DAVIS MARRIES. 

Pittsburg, Oct. 19. 
The marriage of Harry Davis, manager 
of the Grand Opera House, to a young 
.Jewess became known this week. Mr. 
Davis, who has a daughter as old as his 
present wife, eloped three weeks ago, Mrs. 
pavis is nineteen years of age. 



CLEVELAND INTBSXSTED WITH 
d MORRIS. 

A well-defined report this weak taid that 
W. S. Cleveland, the general nuinager of 
the John J. Ryan houses, had become in- 
terested in all the travelling vaudeville 
shows to be placed by William Morris in 
the open time on the Shubert Brothers cir- 
cuit. .:._':.■ •.'•.;;v:'.v,- ^- /...r;.' r. . : ■.;; , 

Mr. Cleveland refused any information 
on the subject when questioned, but the 
truth of the rumor is generally accepted. 



> KEITH AND THE ICAJESTICS. 

A newspaper story printed this week 
gave the Majestic theatres in New York 
and Brooklyn to Keith. ^ 

There was no foundation to the report, 
apd that particular ground has been covered 
by Variety in past issues. Keith can not^ 
secure the Majestic at EMfty-nlnth street 
at present. He may be able to do so after 
the Shubert Brothers' new Lincoln Theatre 
is opened. 

The Brooklyn Majestic may be had if 
Keith will pay the price. If the fight be- 
tween him and P. G. Williams keeps up, 
and there is no cheaper Brooklyn house ou 
the market, the Brooklyn Majestic will 
probably become a continuous vaudeville 
house under the Keith management. 



SHEEDY SETTLED. 

Sanger and Pitman, producers of the 
vaudeville act called "The Big Show," had 
a "run in" with M. R. Sheedy, proprietor 
of Sheedy's Theatre, Fall River. "The 
Big Show" played with Sheedy last week 
and at the conclusion of the engagement 
the house manager refused to pay the 
salary in full, alleging that the stage per- 
formance was not of the proper calibre. 

Mr. Pitman, of the firm, refused to ac- 
cept any portion of the amount due and 
came to New York for enough money to 
move the company to the next stand. It 
was finally decided to hold the matter 
open until Sheedy's weekly visit to New 
York and when he arrived on Wednesday 
they got together. After a couple of pow- 
wows the difference was adjusted by the 
payment in full by Sheedy. 



COLUMBUS HAS A MORRIS SHOW. 

Columbus, 0., Oct. 19. 

The bills are out for the William Mor- 
ris All Star vaudeville show which plays 
the Shubert Theatre here next week. An 
old-time artist said to-day, after reading 
what the billboard had to tell: "If that 
fellow Morris gives a show like this where 
there's no opposition, I would like to see 
one when he is putting up a fight." 

The headliner of the Morris troupe will 
be Thompson's Elephants, and the others 
are "A Night in an ^glish Music Hall," 
Grace Cameron, Ed Blondell, Banks-Brea- 
zeale Duo, Marseilles, Al Lawrence, Gil- 
day and Fox and pictures of the Vander- 
bilt Cup Race. 



OUTSIDE TICKET SALESBIEN. 

Providence, R. I., Oct. 19. 
The management of the Keith Theatre 
here is making all kinds of efforts to 
hnild up its patronage. One of its schemes is 
a sort of system of "outside salesmen," 
as it were. The various attaches of the 
house are daily disp.\tched to the various 
points where tickets ire sold with instruc- 
tions to watch over f id pus)) th^ sal^, 



VARIETY 






LEO CARRILLO'S CARTOON OF THE WEEK 







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"HIS MASTER'S VOICE" 



NEW FIRM INCORPORATES 

The new vaudeville agency firm of Will- 
iam L. Lykens, Robert Grau, Freeman 
Bernstein and W. W. Ely have or will 
incorporate for $100,000. I. N. Jacobson, 
with offices in the Park Row Building, is 
the attorney for the quartet. Mr. Jacob- 
son is understood to have advanced the 
$25 necessary for the preliminaries inci- 
dental to the corporate existence. 

Messrs. Lykens and Grau are acquainted 
with New York vaudeville. Mr. Bern- 
stein has also been around New York for 
some time. W. W. Ely is the unknown 
quantity in the formation. He has been 
for some time engaged with the Sullivan-' 
Considine circuit, having headquarters for 
awhile at Seattle. Recently he was placed 
in charge of the circuit's theatre at Scran- 
ton, Pa., and afterward given charge also 
of the Family Theatre on East 125th 
street. Mr. Ely now manages both 
houses. With his advent into New York, 
and the retirement of Al Onken from the 
Sullivan-Considine employ, Ely formed a 
partnership with Bernstein as joint agents 
for the "ten-cent" time. 

The union of the four agents was to 
get in touch with all branches of vaude- 
ville, and the incorporation was agreed 
upon with the object of offering the itock 
for lalt to tht public 



FORMER RYAN MANAGER ANGRY. 

Chicago, Oct. 19. 
The former manager of John J. Ryan's 
Majestic Theatre at Erie, l*a., is in the 
city. He is William Lang, and Mr. Lang 
is angry at Messrs. Cleveland and Ryan. 
He says he will sue Ryan and the Interna- 
tional Theatre Company. HLs claim 

against Ryan, according to Mr. Lang, is 
salary for the remainder of the season as 
manager of the Erie house. 

He also says that he has a claim against 
the International company for commissions 
due him while he was located in it» office 
in Chicago. Mr. Lang goes so far as to 
state that he believes the post of Majestic 
manager was given him to avoid the pay- 
ment of ihat commission. 



MORRIS HAS LONG SHUBERT TIME. 

William Morris will have long stretches 
of Shubert time to fill with his traveling 
vaudeville companies, according to the 
present prospect. 

There is a period of ten straight weeks 
in New Haven, Conn., where Morris' bill 
will occupy the stage of the Shubert 
Bros.' theatre in that city, and in Colum- 
bus, O., practically the remainder of the 
season has been turned over. 

There are other cities on the Shubert 
list where the same arrangements will 
eventually be made, and that some large 
transaction is in process of unfolding 
wherein the Shuberts and Morris are in- 
terested seems certain from various signs. 



MORE TALK OF PHILA. FOR WIL- 
LIAMS. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 19. 
I'ercy G. Williams blew into town from 
New York Wednesday, ostensibly to attend 
the Corbett-McGovern fight. Before visit- 
ing the National Athletic Club he was 
closeted with a well-known firm of local 
architects and it is believed that he con- 
templates the immediate erection of a 
vaudeville bouse here, or at least the com- 
plete reconstruction of a theatre already 
built. :;' 



KEITH'S HARLEM MANAGER. 

E. F. Rogers, formerly manager of 
Keith's Union Square ITieatre, will be in 
charge of the Harlem Opera House when 
that theatre opens for vaudeville under 
the Keith-Proctor management next Mon- 
day. Frank Smith, Mr. Rogers' stage 
manager downtown, will have a similar 
position in the Harlem house. 

Lindsay Morrison takes Mr. Rogers' 
place at the Fourteenth street place. 



ST. PAUL'S ORPHEUM OPENS. 

St. Paul, Oct. 19. 

The Orpheum Theatre opens to-morrow 
(Saturday) night under the local manage- 
ment of Jules Bistes, who opened the Salt 
Lake City house for the Orpheum circuit 
last season. The initial bill will be com- 
posed of Margaret Wycherley, "School 
Boys and Girls," May me Remington, Ida 
O'Day, Bellman and Moore, the Five Sal- 
vag^is and Dixon Brothers. 

The old Windsor Hotel, opposite th^ 
new Orpheum Theatre, has been converted 
into a sort of indoor park, with cheap 
vaudeville, moving pictures, penny ar- 
cade, house of mirth, cafe and various 
other attractions. L. N. Scott, manager 
of the Metropolitan Opera Housse, heads 
the investing firm, prominent in which is 
John O'Connor, St. Paul's chief of police. 
Smith Hall, formerly press agent of Won- 
derland Park, is manager. • 



ARTHUR PRINCE GOING BACK. 

.\rthur l*rince and his wife, Ma Rence, 
will sail next week for I»ndon, where the 
ventriloquist is booked to appear at proba- 
bly the Palace on November 5. The en- 
gagement was made by cable suddenly late 
In the week. 



H. B. Marinelli, the foreign agent, is at 
present traveling over the continent of Eu-" 












Brooks and Jeauette clo^e with the 
"Parisian Widow}'" to-night. 



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VARIETY 



ANDERSON SENDS FOR ZIEGLER. 

Oincinnati, Oct. 19. 
At midnight Tuesday H. M. Ziegler 
caught the train to Chicago in response to 
a hurry telephone call from Max Ander- 
son. A "deal" of some kind is on, but no 
information can be obtained. Mr. Ander- 
son returned to the city on Thursday, but 
would divulge nothing. .;..'. 



ANDESSON-ZISGLSR CONFERENCE. 

Chicago, Oct. 19. 
Max 0. Anderson and Henry M. Zieg- 
ler, both of Cincinnati and partners in 
business, held a conference on Wednesday 
during which the strictest privacy was 
maintained. 
The impression is that the talk was 



about taking over Col. John D. Hopkins' 
vaudeville theatres. Col. Hopkins was in 
the city at the time, Anderson left for 
New York the same day, Ziegler going 
back to Cincinnati. 



LEOPARD ATTACKS TRAINER. 

Worcester, Mass., Oct. 19. 
Prof. Joyat, one of the animal trainers 
with the Bostock show which opened a 
week's engagement at the Worcester The- 
atre, was attacked by an ugly tempered 
Jeopard during the Monday evening per- 
formance. Though badly cut up and suf- 
fering from claw and tooth wounds, Joyat 
retained his presence of mind, whipped 
the beast into submission and closed his 
act, much weakened from loss of blood. 



RYAN OFFERS $2Sfioo. ' 

et. Louis, Oct. 19. 

John J. Ryan wants the Shubert Bros.' 
Qarrick Theatre here for vaudeville. He 
has offered the firm |26,000 yearly as ren- 
tal for the leasehold. 

The Shubert Bros, intend holding on 
awhile longer, though, to see how the Gar- 
rick "pans out." 



HYDE k BEHMAN*S MEETING. 

Owinf to the death of Henry W. Beh- 
man, the treasurer of the corporation con- 
trolling the Hyde & Behman enterprises, 
a meeting ha^ been called for next week 
to fill the vacancy among the officers. Such 
other business as may have to be given 
attention through Mr. Behman's death will 
alHO receive attention at the same time. 



GRANVILLE IS PACIFIED. 

After all the troublous times caused by 
the "two weeks notice" given to Taylor 
Granville through which he severed his 
connection with "The Futurity Winner," 
Mr. Granville will continue in vaudeville 
on his own hook. 

He has an elaborate production called 
"The Young Aeronaut" under way, em- 
ploying nine people, and will make his 
stellar vaudeville debut in that. 



WINSOR McCAY PLAYING. 

After a week's experience in vaudeville 
some time ago, during which Winsor Mc- 
Cay, on his own statement, received valu- 
able experience, the cartoonist will return 
to the field on Monday next at the Fifth 
Avenue Theatre, where the New York 
Herald's clever humorist with his pen will 
show the public new ideas of "Little 
Nemo." -'--■: ^-^—^ ■-■- — -^ ■.. . -\ ; , .'.; . ■ 



saginaw theatre future doubt. 

./....•;■;:;■..•' • ful. •^. -■,'■'•: ■■•. '^■..;-' ■ 

Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 19. 

The Jeffers Theatre, which had a spasm 
of vaudeville under the joint management 
of H. H. Lamkin and Newton, is idle just 
now and there is speculation as to its 
future policy. 

After Lamkin disposed of his interest, 
Newton and the former treasurer, Sar- 
gent, decided to rua cheap vaudeville, book- 
ing through the Western Vaudeville As- 
sociation. Then again it was decided to 
run a better grade of acts and book in 
conjunction with J. H. Moore's houses in 
Rochester and Detroit through the Keith 
Booking Agency. 

Another whirl of the wheel and the re- 
port comes out that the latest plan is to 
give over the theatre to one of the burlesqucr 
wheels for a three-night stand. 



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MANAGERS SUING S. & K. 

Individual damage suits for $2,000 each 
are now in progress by the managers of 
the attractions in the Eastern Burlesque 
Wheel against Sullivan & Kraus for 
breach of contract in refusing to play 
their attractions. 

When the owners of the Dewey Theatre 
broke away from the Eastern an injunc- 
tion was applied for to restrain them 
from taking such action. The application 
was dismissed, but the Eastern folk said 
the suit was brought only for the pur- 
pose of fixing the responsibility financial- 
ly under their contracts. This informa- 
tion is claimed to have been obtained and 
the damage suits will follow. 

The Western Wheel, on the other hand, 
say that there was only one contract 
given out by S\illivan &, Kraus which car- 
ried a penalty of $2,000 for failure to play 
the attraction. The other agreements 
given out by the firm are alleged to have 
been on the usual contract form without 
special clauses. 



WANT THEIRS UNDER COVER. 

They're growing very "fussy" out in the 
tall grass. Recently there was a howl 
from the Western managers playing melo- 
dramas against shows which carried names 
suggestive of red paint and wickedness. 
Accordingly there will be a general revi- 
sion of melodramatic titles. **Why Girls 
Leave Home," "Queen of the White 
Slaves" and "Confessions of a Wife" are 
scheduled to come under the censor's blue 
pencil. . _ . .._^ , 

Managers of burlesque organizations 
with descriptive titles are practicing on 
more delicately conveyed headlinefi in the 
event of being ordered to "cover" their 
"paper" when striking the saintly towns. 
The West seems to be falling off in its 
sense of humor. 



•*The County Fair" at the Madison 
Square Garden doeee to-day. 



HOWARD AND EMERSON STARRING. 

Chicago, Oct. 19. 

The lately divorced team of Howard and 
Emerson will shortly pursue their differ- 
ent theatrical way hereafter in vehicles for 
which Jos. Howard may claim the respon- 
sibility. 

Mr. Howard and his newly wedded wife, 
Mabel Harrison, will go out in "The Dis- 
trict Leader," while Ida Emerson, the 
former better half of Howard, will star in 
"The Time, the Place and the Giri," a 
piece to which her ex-husband contributed 
the music. Miss Emerson opens in Ann 
Arbor, Mich., December 1. 



WHITE RATS AFTER CLUBHOUSE. 

■ A location on West Forty- fifth street 
as been selected by the Building Com- 
mittee of the White Rats of America as 
the most favorable site for its proposed 
new clubhouse. Bonds will be issued and 
sold. A sinking fund will also be estab- 
lished by the order. ; , 

Up to the present time the society has 
not been in a position to lay money aside. 
Now the income excet^^^ the outlay and 
the surplus is rapidly 'accumulating. 

A mail vote is being taken on the rati- 
fication of the affiliation between the 
Rats and the two foreign artists' organi- 
zations. 



ARTIST-MANAGERS. 

Bay City, Mich., Oct. 19. 



'^LTcTfyTs' fibont now awakening to 
a realizing sense of what is missed last 
week when Sydney Grant and Eugene 
O'Rourke, two of the artists billed to ap- 
pear in the Alvarado Theatre bill, ran the 
show for the week on a co-operative plan. 

The manager, Marks, informed Messrs. 
Grant and O'Rourke while they were play- 
ing at Saginaw that the house here would 
close. Consulting with O'Rourke, Grant 
replied that they would take the house on 
percentage, which was agreed to. 

Mr. Grant "jollied" the newspapers, 
"worked" the urchins on the street, and 
"conned" the school teachers until at the 
end of the week the house had almost 
broken the vaudeville record with receipts 
of $946. 



BENTHAM BOOKS UP ''BUSTER." 

Boston, Oct. 19. 

M. S. Bentham, the New York agent, 
arrived here last night with his i)ocket 
bulging with a bunch of contracts for 
Lamar and Gabriel, who are playing at 
Keith's Theatre here this week. In addi- 
tion to the original ten weeks in vaude- 
ville Bentham brought with him for sig- 
nature fifteen additional weeks with 
Keith and ten over the Orpheum circuit, 
making thirty-five consecutive weeks alto- 
gether. 

The Keith blanket contract calls for an 
option on the act for five more weeks, to 
be pla3'ed at the conclusion of the Orpheum 
time if the Keith Agency so elects. The 
salary is $1,000 weekly. Master Gabriel 
will be retained at Keith's for a second 
week. 



"WHITE SLAVES** DIDN'T PAY. 

George Adams, formerly of Adams and 
Ross, who went out at the beginning of 
the season in "Queen of the White Slaves," 
was back in town early this week. He 
was looking for dates again, the "White 
Slaves" having given up Saturday night in 
Atlantic City. Adams was a burlesque 
comedian before the melodrama lured him 
away, and it is probable that he will go 
on one of the Wheels. 



"RECORD MAKERS" A QUARTET. 

Four singers who have been until re- 
cently employed in making wax records for 
the Edison Phonograph Company have 
combined and will appear in vaudeville as 
a quartet under the title "The Four Rec- 
ord Makers." 

Their names are Byron G. Harlem, Ar- 
thur Collins, Steven Porter and William 
Murray. Myers & Keller are looking after 
their interetUK • '-- 



HURTIG & SEAMON DIGGING FOR 

: :-x:;--- {.■ MONEY..:- ■::■■..;• 

After permitting B. A. Myers, the agent, 
without a word of protest or demand, to 
direct the theatrical affairs of Mabel Mc- 
Kinley, the singer, for over four yean, the 
firm of Hurtig A Seamon through its at- 
torney, Leon Laski, now oomet forward 
and threaten* to bring suit against the 
agent for an accounting, alleging that it 
was a partner in the enterprise. 

Huriig A. Seamon claim that at the time 
Mr. Myers entered into an agreement with 
Miss McKinley, he was their employee, and 
they are therefore entitled to any profits 
which may have accrued to him through 
the contract. 

Money in sight or out having always 
been the objective point of the managers' 
existence, it appeared like "easy picking" 
to threaten suit. Even though Mr. Myers 
concluded to settle at a figure which he 
estimated it would require to satisfy law 
yers he wouM have to retain to defend the 
suit, still, according to the Hurtig & Sea- 
mon theory, "every little bit helps" and 
that would be something. 

If suit is brought Myers* defense will be 
that Hurtig &, Seamon are in ignorance of 
whereof they are speaking. 



OUTDOOR "COUNTY FAIR." 

There is more likelihood at the present 
moment of the "County Fair" being held 
in the open air next year than that it 
will be repeated at the Madison Square 
Garden, which held the event this month 
under the management of Frank Melville. 

Mr. Melville will again conduct the 
rural show, and has an option on the Gar- 
den for several seasons to come, but is 
favorably inclined toward some big lot or 
racetrack around New York City as the 
next scene of his countrified endeavor. 

The Fair closes to-night after a three 
weeks run at the Garden, and Mr. Mel- 
ville, the promoter, says it has been suc- 
cessful in every respect. The last five 
days of this week the admission was 
raised to $1 without any diminution of 
the attendance. 



FISCHER HOME. 

Clifford C. Fischer, the foreign agent, re- 
turned to New York last Saturday after 
a protracted stay on the other side. Mr. 
Fischer said that he found the variety con- 
ditions excellent, especially immediately 
before he left, the attendance having in- 
creased rapidly with the approaching fall. 

The agent declined to give the names 
of the several acts he had booked while 
abroad, although remarking that he has 
twenty-six foreign ones contracted for and 
in negotiation. 

In two weeks time Mr. Fischer will 
again sail for London to establish a for- 
eign office. 



FIRST BILL AT MAJESflC. 

The first Sunday show in the Majestic 
Theatre at the Columbus Circle will be 
given to-morrow night. The bill, which is 
booked by Myers & Keller, will be made 
up of Fitzgerald and Trainer, The Alli- 
sons, Dixon, Anger and company (New 
Act), Gallagher and Barrett, Gould and 
Suratt, Mabel McKinley, LaMaze Broth- 
ers and moving pictures. 

The Majestic will come into close oppo- 
sition for Its Sunday concerts with the 
Colonial Theatre in that Mighborhood. 



VARIETY 



FAMILY OF VENTRILOQUISTS HERE. 

At Sheedy's Fall River Theatre this 
week Maud Edwards, an Ehiglish ventrilo* 
quist, is playing her first American en- 
gagement. She is accompanied by her 
brother, Tom Edwards, another ventrilo- 
(juist, who is booked to open on the Keith 
circuit November 6. Mr. Edwards was 
booked by H. H. Feiber for the Keith 
Agency, while his sister was engaged for 
> this country through H. B. Marinelli. Both 
came over on the same boat. /. ... 

The similarity of their occupation and 
the difference in booking arrangement 
brought out some curious facts regarding 
Miss Edwards' American tour this week. 
It is said that she was pledged to appear 
over here through the offices of another 
^--foreign agent. In some mysterious way 
the New York office of Marinelli became 
acquainted with its competitor's overtures 
and cabled its London branch to secure 
the act. 

That was done and a contract for 
twenty weeks given the Englishwoman by 
Marinelli, acting for himself. Afterward 
she was offered to William Morris, who, 
upon being informed of all the facts, de- 
cided that he would not be a party to the 
proceedings, and declined to book the act 
unless 1: came through the agent who had 
. originally negotiated for it. 

If Mr. Morris does not supply the Mari- 
nelli New York office with time for Mias 
Edwards it will have the young lady on 
its hands with twenty vacant weeks to 
provide for. 

There is a report that the matter be- 
tween the two foreign agents was adjusted 
on the bhsis of Marinelli directing the 
tour, while the other agent receives the 
commission. 



ARTISTS' FORUM 



"SKIQIE" LIKES THE "IDEALS. 



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LIGHTLY TOUCHED. 

If he had had more money the blow 
would have been harder, but Fred Schlan- 
horger, manager of Kcrnan's Maryland 
Theatre in Baltimore, came to New York 
last Monday with only $100 in cash. 

Down South that is considered an im- 
mense amount of currency for one person 
to be caretaker for, and when Mr. Schlan- 
berger reached the Imperial Hotel in this 
city some one about probably knew of 
his wealth. 

Tuesday night the manager retired to 
rest (in the hotel) and on Wednesday 
morning he discovered that he had been 
relieved of further responsibility and $80, 
the remainder of his "roll." 

The urbane clerk at the hotel politely 
told Mr. Schlanberger that the matter 
would be looked into when he reported it 
at the desk, but the Baltimorean luckily 
did not have to walk home. 



BEDINI ACT WITHIN RANGE. 

It is probable that the matter at issue 
between Jean Bedini and Fred Karno, in- 
volving the charge of piracy in the dupli- 
cation of "A Night in an English Music 
Hall," will be threshed o\it in the courts 
next week, when the Bedini version is 
billed to show at Hyde & Behman's 
Adams Street Theatre, Brooklyn. 

The Karno people are understood to 
have the papers in an injunction suit all 
prepared, while Mr. Bedini is quoted as. 
declaring he would welcome an airing of 
the affair, as pivinjr him an opportunity 
of making plain his position. 



Cofifln« your totters to 150 words and writo o« oao sldo of 
Anoaymoua cooMnunlcailoao win not bo prlntad. Nobm of wrlt< 
bo hold In strict coafMonco. If doolrod. 



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Newark, N. J., Oct. 16. 
Editor Variety: 

You will confer a favor by publishing 
this letter, as I have been dealt the mean- 
est trick ever tried on an artist. 

In Variety dated October 13, under 
"Artist's Forum," appeared a letter refer- 
ring to me containing many untrue state- 
ments. Although the signature to it was 
"Sam Silver," yet it was Joe Barton who 
composed the letter, using his fifteen-year- 
old partner's (Silver) name to avoid 
trouble. First of all, Barton and myself 
never at any time triad or did the "ladder" 
trick. lie claims to have a ladder at 
Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre, New 
York. Very true, but that ladder was not 
built until after Barton saw our act at 
Keith's Union Square, New York City. 
It was then Barton decided to build a 
ladder and try our finishing trick. After 
many unsuccessful attempts he gave it up 
and left the ladder at Miner's. 

It is a known fact by Harry Fisher, of 
Fisher and Johnson, and Al Zarrow, of 
the Zarrow Trio, that I rode a unicycle 
long before Barton ever dreamed of riding 
one, yet he claims to have taught me how 
to ride. Barton says he will wager $500 
that he and I did the "ladder" trick four 
years ago. I will accept that wager. It 
is not true, and I will also bet him $500 
that he deliberately falsifies when he says 



he taught me how to ride a unicycle. You 
to be stakeholder. If. O. Berg, 

Of Cycling Zanoras. 



Chicago, Oct. 13. 
Editor Variety; 

The complaint of Contino and Lawrence 
against Collins and LaBelle for taking the 
"upside-down" dancing trick no doubt is 
justified, but for either to claim the origi- 
nality of the trick is going too far. Long 
before any of them were old enough to 
know what dancing was, James McDonald, 
father of Polly McDonald, did "upside- 
down" dancing in this country. About 
twenty yeara ago a team called Burlip and 
Mitchell did dancing similar to this ; only 
they danced while lying on their backs, the 
clogs beating taps on a marble slab which 
was hung on the side of a pedestal. 

Joe Ijove, 
Of Mitchell and I^ove. 



--■■■ Washington, Oct. ir>. 

Editor Variety: 

I wijsh to call your attention to artists 
billing themselves as "The Dixie Htiys." 
As I am the original Dixie Boy. from 
Louisville, Ky., I wLsh they would kindly 
refrain from using that title. ., 

Billy Nohif, 
With "20th Century Maids." 



DAILEY HAS NEW SKETCH. 

After having caused the closing of "The 
Vanderbilt Cup" through the misfortune 
of injuring his leg, Robert L. Dailey, for- 
merly of Dailey and Leslie, and who was 
the star of the automobile piece, is coming 
back into vaudeville with a Cressy sketch, 
opening at the Doric Theatre, Yonkers, No- 
vember 21. 



SHEA PLAYING OPPOSITION ACT. 

Buffalo, Oct. 10. 
After a week's absence Coulture and 
Gillette are playing Shea's Garden Theatre 
this week. Two weeks ago the team was 
a number in the William Morris bill which 
played the Lyceum Theatre in opposition 
to Shea. 



POLI AND ALONZO WORK. 

Last Monday morning S. Z. Poli and 
his general manager, P. Alonzo, were 
called to Bridgeport, Conn., where the 
stage hands at Poll's Theatre had gone 
out on strike. 

Arriving too late to adjust the trouble 
before the matinee, Mr. Poli assumed 
charge of the "front" of the house, while 
the resident manager and Mr. Alonzo took 
charge behind the footlights, running the 
bill off smoothly at both the afternoon 
and night show. * 

All the Poli theatres employ union men 
and at Bridgeport Mr. Poli had previously 
met a committee from the local union, 
promising to again meet them in a week's 
time. On Monday morning, without no- 
tice, and before the week had passed, the 
entire stage crew quit. Mr. Poli is not 
so kindly disposed now toward organized 
labor and has not decided whether he will 
further entertain their overtures for a 
reconciliation or not. 



NO "BARRING" IN TOLEDO. 

Toledo, Oct. 19. 

The engagement of Burke and Dempsoy 
at the Valentine Theatre this week sets 
at rest as far as Toledo is concerned all 
rumors that acts playing at any hou8(^ 
booked by William Morris would not ap- 
pear at the Keith Theatre here (Valen- 
tine). 

Burke and Dempsey appeared at the 
Olympic Theatre in Cincinnati two weeks 
ago. They were booked in there by Mor- 
ris. 



NO STOLL COMBINATION. 

The printed report that Oswald Stoll, 
the Knglish manager, had formed an 
American alliance for the interchange of 
acts received no credence in New York. 

The conditions in the two countries are 
so unalterably different that such an 
agreement would be out of the question. 



BUYS EASTERN MUSIC RIGHTS. 

Ilelf & Ilager have entered into an ar- 
rnnjroment with Will Rossiter. the Chicago 
publisher, by which the Now York firm ac- 
quires tho Eastern rights to the Rosaiter 
catalojjue, the biggest seller In which is 
"The Man in the Moon is a Coon." 



SEMON WANTS VARIETY. 

Charles ¥. Scmon, "the narrow fellor," 
has cancelled all his bookings with Wil- 
liam Morris and gone over to the United 
Agency. He feels that he has played so 
much in the Hammerstein and Williams 
houses that if he stayed away for a sea- 
son they wotilJ once more regard him as 
a novelty. 



Variety's Youthful Critic sees Burlesque 
for the first time and says **lt's 
Half Real Show; Half Vaude- 
ville." Thinks EmmaZeph 

'■■:>: "Peaches," ;/ 




("Skigio" is a boy seren jtun old. HaTlng 
liicn a coniitunt attendant at TaudevlUe theatres 
since the age of three, he has a decided opinion. 
"Sklgle'B" Tlewfl are not printed to bo taken 
H« rloiisly, but rathfr to enable the artlat to do- 
tannine the ImpreKHion he or his work leares on 
tbfc Infantile mind. What "Skigle" says la taken 
down vtTbatlm.) 



*' That's the first time I have seen a 
burlesque show (Williams* "Ideals," Tiewey 
Theatre. October 13), and I like it. It's 
half real show and half vaudeville and it's 
just the same as the plays at the Casino. 

There's a lot of girls and they don't 
wear hardly anything at all and I would 
like to have a stick and go firound and slap 
them and I'll tell you what I did like; 
that tramp (Frank O'Brien) who was 
dressed up like a rooster and he laid eggs, 
and I liked thase bugle calls (International 
Musical Trio) and I liked the orcheslra 
singing the Salvation Army songs. 

The girls were all right, and some looked 
good and some looked rotten and that firf 
who asked for $5 (Emma Zeph) was 
peaches and they had a funny girl there 
whom everybody wanted to kidnap (Mabel 
Johnson), but I couldn't tell what the 
show was about. It was something about 
a hotel and some one lost some rags and 
the bell boy (Henry Peyser) came In and 
hit everybody over the head with a sausage, 
and then a fellow gave another fellow some 
money in a satchel and when the other 
follow opened the satchel the money wasn't 
there, but the funniest thing was when 
that tramp shot right up to the top of the 
theatre and came down kerchunk Into • 
box, and I thought it would kill him and 
then he got right out and walked on the 
stage. 

Some of the girls look so fanny In their 
tight clothes. They go In and out and 
they are bigger In the back than they are 
in front, and there's a fat girl there who 
made roe laugh and there's a big woman 
who can't walk because her clothes are so 
tight (Katherin Klare, in tights) and 
there's one time when all the girls wear 
some clothes which don't match. One side 
is red and the other side yellow (Minstrel 
Maids) and they told a story about Alice 
Roosevelt and another about a snake 
crawling on its own stomach and a flea can 
crawl on your stomach and they were all 
right. 

They sang a whole lot of songs and 
there was lots of fun, and I like It better 
than vaudeville. 



.lack Irwin, "the Pm't of the Bowery," 
sailed last week for London on a month's 
visit. 



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VARIETY 




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LillUn Waltone. 
Illustrated Songs. 
pAttor*8. 

A music publisher is responsible for the 
new act of Lillian Waltone's at Pastor's 
this week. With her freak voice- MIks 
Waltone sings songs of the puhliiiiher, who 
aids her with poorly painted slides. In the 
first selection "The Rose," a burlesque idea 
of this season has been taken. Flowers 
are thrown on the singer, enveloping her 
up to the face. The slides are almast as 
wearing on the nerves as the song itself. 
The second number, "The Good Old U. S. 
A.," has the "3'ou must applaud" pictures, 
with an American flag too thickly spread 
over it for the audience to respond, and 
the patriotic matter failed to revive the 
past popularity of the selection. Tlie finish 
is a medley and the singer earns a bow 
with that. If Miss Waltone had been wise 
she would have insisted upon the publish- 
ing hoiuse purchasing a pair of black kid 
gloves to wear with her pink dress. The 
act will probably do in houses where 
illustrated songs and singers are accepted 
at a music firm's expense. Stmc. 



[iNEW AGT^ or THE WEEK] 



NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 



iBltial Pr«MBt«tioB or Firit Appearanee 
in Ifew York City. 



Kamo'a "A Night in a London Club/' 
Orpheum. 

Sydney Kingdom Ayres, Alhambra. 

Lester and Acker, Hyde & Behman'a. 

James Norval and Six Variety Girls, 
Keeney's. 

The Majors, Colonial. 

Wylie's Circus, Union Square.' 

Morris Cronin (Reappearance), Union 
Square. ' 

The Kneelers, Pastor's. 

Fleming and Miller, Pastor's. 

Thos. L. Seabtooke and Pauline HalL 
•'A Footlight Favorite.»» \^ 

Keeney's. ^^ 

No excuse of "breaking in week" can be 
urged in extenuation of tlie sad proceedings 
which the program calls "an original one- 
act comedy by James W. Herbert," shown 
at Keeney's for the fir.st time this week. 
The sketch as it stands is devoid of humor 
in story and situation and shows none of 
the novelty that might be depended upon to 
sustain interests Better sketches have been 
shown in burlesque olios without attracting 
attention, and indeed there \n not a little 
of the uproarious farce that characteriz<'s 
the burlesque sketch of the same sort in 
this new offering. Seabrooke has a good 
song at his entrance and Miss Hall warbles 
in her wonted style, but this helps only a 
little in the surrounding gloom. .T. Ward 
Kett has a part as thrilling as a Iny figure 
and Eva Grau's business seems to be to 
look pretty and scream piercingly from 
time to time. She does both with complotf* 
success. Kate Gardner and "C. Winston" 
(probably the property man) are the 
others. Tlie names of the two former stars 
may be depended upon to carry the sketch 
through a more or lass successful career. 
It would otherwise probably never again 
see the light Rush, 




Josephine Cohan. 

"A Friend of the Family." 

Colonial. 

The most important question about the 
new sketch Josephine Cohan and company 
are playing at the Colonial this week is : 
Who wrote it? The program says "Will 
M. Cressy and Fred Niblo." If Mr. 
Cressy is responsible he cheated someone, 
for the foolish farce required no thought, 
let alone writing. A bridal couple of three 
weeks having their first squabble doubt 
each other's love, and for a test a friend 
who calls to ask the wife to intercede with 
another young woman in his behalf ix 
pressed into service to arouse tho jonlousy 
of both through making love to the nnuly 
made wife. A wild Westernrr is intro- 
duced, with a big gun, larger th.ni ihe on<' 
the husband carries for the piirixisc of 
killing the "friend" after hp has rccoivf-d !i 
mistaken impression that the lovemnkinu' 
is on. The plot develop"^ into n "(hasinu" 
picture, the characters ninnin? nfler eaeli 
other on and off tlie stntje. The <us- 
tomary song and dance by ihe sfnr 
is given, and the dance is the one moment 



of relief. There is no legitimate excuse for 
the introduction of the song, and al- 
though the scene is laid in a sparsely fur- 
nished "jlovecote" Miss Cohan exits 
througli the first entrance instead of the 
door. Otto Hoffman by force of circum- 
stances stands out brightly in the mediocre 
playlet. Through it.s burlesqued funni- 
ments a portion of the audience appar- 
ently liked the sketch and applauded. 
'/'■. Sime. 




Little Garry C'vcn. 
"The Polished Villain." 
Pastor's. 

Charles Horwitz wrote "The Polished 
Villain" for Little Garry Owen, a boy 
eight years of age. It is supposed to be a 
travesty on the "protean" rage. Tlie pres- 
ent sketch may be the Horwitz opinion of 
trnvosty, burlesque or comedy, but the 
only iota of each in the playlet is con- 
tributed solely by Ma-stor Owen through 
his natural humor and brightness. It is a 
"protean act," no more, no lesf, without 
wit in the dialogue. The largest laugh of 
the piece is an impromptu line introduced 
by tlie youngster. There are six characters 
with several more change.<5, and the inten- 
tion of obliging a mere baby to wade 
through the mens given him, deriving 
comedy of his own out of the seriousness 
of the author's lines and plot, is ideal 
ridiculou-^ness. Yet with all young Owen 
liad to contend with he scored. This 
youngster is without question the most 
l>recocious actor on the stage. To expe<'t 
that he could hold the stage alone for 
fifteen minutes with six characters, and 
all talk, without action, was beyond reason. 
(Jarry gave a remarkably fine performance 
from a strictly technical point of observa- 
tion: the dres.sing Ls correct for each im- 
personation, and the changes effected fairly 
rapifl. Were the parts to be shortened, the 
several characters made to reappear more 
often, with as little dialogue as possible, 
nnd a great deal more action allowing for 
his own comedy instincts, the act would be 
an immediate success of large proportion's. 
"Travesty" sounded well, but the author 
never got beyond the word. The audience 
at Pastor's liked Garry and for the same 
reason liked his act, but it .-hould be re- 
written to command good time and money. 

iS'imc. 




Maude Courtenay. 

Songs. 

Colonial. 

After having worked her way to suc- 
cess with the "old songs" Miss Courtenay 
sang herself into favor on the other side 
in like manner. She returns now, but not 
\\\\h any selections worth mentioning. 
With a young man in a box she an- 
noun<('s "the American songs I made 
|)oj)nliir in England," but the audience 
c;ircd n<»l, for the numbers were old and 
the medley wns not enjoyed even though 
the aforesaid youth displayed a screechy 
fjilseiio. Miss Courtenay requires another 
repertoire, or the former standby. The 
re<lfntion to close might be retained; that 
is about all. not omitting the male singer 
iu the discard. £ftme. 




Everhart 
Hoop Rolling. 
Union Square. 

After an absence of some duration Ever- 
hart, who is probably the original hoop 
roller, returns to America, showing bis 
expertness in that line, but nothing new. 
His stage setting is pretty and he carries 
two assistants who are of aid neither in 
the work nor by comedy. So many hoop- 
rolling acts have either copied Everhart's 
tricks or invented similar ones that there 
is no novelty to his act as produced at 
the Union Square on Monday afternoon. 
He may have surprises which are await- 
ing the overcoming of a sea voyage. 
■:, "' •..■,:'" ■■-.'." "■■' ' : ;, '-, Sime. 

Tom Brantford. 

Imitations. 

Keeney's. 

As an imitator of musical instruments 
Mr. Brantford, who has been abroad for 
several years, stands very high on the list. 
A good piece of comedy was the repro- 
duction of a German street band and this 
received applause, as did several bugle 
calls. Mr. Brantford's repertoire also con- 
tains trains and steamboat whistles. In 
his imitations of brass instruments Brant- 
ford catches a certain ringing quality that 
makes them surprisingly natural. 

: ■ ■■ Rufth. 




Daisy and Florence D'Arco. 

"Aladdin." 

Pastor's. 



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As a musical sketch "Aladdin," said 
to have been written by the composer of 
'The Spring Chicken," now playing at 
Daly's Theatre, is entitled to considera- 
tion. As a novel and pretty setting for 
a 'sister act" the piece unquestionably 
brings the D'Arco Sisters into the lime- 
light when viewed from that point. They 
may object to the designation, but "Alad- 
din" is in reality a sister act in a full set 
with an original foundation. Telling the 
childhood story in verse, the musical num- 
bers, expecting one interpolation, have been 
especially composed. P3ach girl assumes a 
dual role and Daisy D'Arco shoulders the 
burden of work. As a Cliincse boy (Alad- 
din) her wig is at fault, but she looks 
well in the dress, as does her sister in her 
characters and costumes. 'Jlie singing is 
pleasant and the sketch the same. Owing 
to the makeup of bill at Pastor's this 
week they were compelled to close in 
"one," which should be avoided, as also 
should a foreign setting. There is the pos- 
sibility of a pretentious "girl act" in the 
idea if properly handled. Sime. 



The Metropolis Quartet. 
Songs. ^ 

Colonial. 

A description of "Tliat Quartet" minus 
the voices, selections and stage presence 
covers tho Metropolis Quartet, appearing 
at the Colonial this week. It goes 
thrctush the same routine, even to the 
cliairs on the stage during waits. There 
is no comedy excepting that of appre- 
ciating how easily a vaudeville audience 
applauds singers, with little regard for 
the quality of the music. At the Colonial 
Theatre the house liked the Metropolis 
Four; there was no doubt of that, but the 
quartet individually or collectively do not 
compare with "That" one in any par- 
ticular. Sime. 




Johnston and Hardy. 
Singing Comedians. 
Keeney's. 

Two men, a straight 'm^ and a comedian 
working in tramp makeup. Tlie comedian 
has some good bits and a clever Happy 
Hooligan-like makeup that gets a laugh 
before he begins to work. He sings in high 
almost fals<»tto tones and works in quiet 
touches of good comedy. The straight 
man carries the weight of the singing. The 
parodies are exceedingly good, being writ- 
ten in a quiet vein with an unexpected 
point in the final line. Rush. 



Maybelle Meeker. ' 

Singing, Dancing and Contortions. 

Keith's Union Square. 

When Miss Meeker first appears you are 
reminded of a serio-comic. With a song, 
dance and .some contortions the young 
woman, who is not at all bad looking, re- 
minds you of the exquisite judgment which 
placed her number five on the Keith pro- 
gram, with four superior acts preceding. 
Having a swagger suggesting a burlesque 
experience. Miss Meeker, of her three ac- 
complishments, can contort a little, but 
that little is done with pain, owing to her 
build. She has no singing voice, -can not 
dance, and the only thing she might do 
well, acrobatics, she attempts little of. 
Miss Meeker needs a partner; also an nd- 
vi«pr. Sitnc. 




Ross and Lewis. 

"The Yankee Doodle Duo." 

Pastor's. 

It is three years since the American 
variety stage has been graced by Jack 
Ross and Sue Ix»\vis. In the character of 
a messenger boy Mr. Ross causes laughs 
with his comedy, and plenty of applause 
through "loose" dancing, at which few, if 
any, can excel him. Miss Ix»wis plays 
the piano and sings. The dancing is the 
mainstay, however. Simr. 



The Rich Duo. 

"A College Boy's Flirtation.". / . 

Pastor's. - ' 

Appearing around town for the first 
time at Pastor's this week the Rich Duo 
are seemingly under the impression that 
"A College Boy's Flirtation" is a sketch. 



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VARIETY 



Miss Rich wears a blue dress and whistles, 
being probably aware that she can not sing, 
although trying once or twice. Mr. Rich 
has the same mistaken idea regarding his 
dancing that he has about his "college 
boy" reKeniblance. Tlie gallery was ex- 
tremely kind to the act. Sime. 



THE WOMAN IN VARIETY 



By ANNA HASBLE. 



OUT OF TOWN 



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Beasie Wynn. 
Singing Comedienne. 
Orpheum, Allentown, Pa. 

Allentown's first "New Act" is a suc- 
cess. Bessie Wynn, late star "Babes in 
Toyland," played her first vaudeville en- 
gagement at the Orpheum Monday. Miss 
Wynn sings four songs written especially 
for her. All catchy and in two the gal- 
lery helped the orchestra out. Miss Wynn 
wears beautiful costumes and makes one 
cliangc during the act. The verdict here 
was that Miss Wynn wins out in vaude- 
ville. Mack. 




"The Majors.** 
English Entertainers. 
Nelson, Springfield, Mass. 

Making their first appearance in this 
country with the William Morris show, 
"The Majors" are a sextet of male sing- 
ers and miniica who appear in regulation 
army dress. The act consists of singing 
by four of the members, a few imitations 
and a pianologue by the others. When 
some horseplay has been eliminated and a 
few new songs substituted the act will 
be a distinct novelty. MacDonaU. 




"Doomsday." 

Spectacular. 

Family, Hazleton, Pa. 

Nelson and Camp produced for the first 
time on any stage the electrical and scenic 
spectacle "Doomsday," showing the de- 
struction of the worll. Elaborate electrical 
and mechanical effects make it a sensa- 
tional ofTering. Its most striking scene is 
the razing of New York City. G. W. K. 



COMEDY CLUB'S SKIT. 

I'pon the return of Will M. Cressy and 
Edmund Day to the city the writers, both 
of whom are members of the Vaudeville 
Comedy Club, will commence work on a 
skit employing the services of all mem- 
bers of the club who mav be available. 

The result of their efforts will be shown 
at some New York theatre at a date yet 
to be set, probably shortly before the first 
of the j-ear. 



MISS CRISPI ASKS RELEASE. 

Ida Cri.spi, who sprang into prominence 
last summer during the run of "Mam'zelle 
Champagne" on the Madison Sciuare Roof, 
is scheduled to retire from the cast of 
"Dolly Dollars," at the New York Theatre 
to-night. Tlierrafter there is a live possi- 
bility that she will go into vaudeville. She 
i« said to have approached Charles Dilling- 
ham, to whom she is under contract for a 
year, with a request to be released from her 
agreement temporarily so that she may 
make the experiment. Dillingham has not 
yet given his nod, but it is reported that 
he will set up no impediment to her de- 
sires. Miss Crispi will do a single singing 
act, working in the eccentric dance that 
she used during the roof engagement. 



Mrs. Langtry's incursion into vaudeville 
is accompanied by a not too ardent usage 
of her emotional powers. The beautiful 
lily, aware of the age-producing effect of 
temperamental expression, refrains care- 
fully from overacting. Indeed, as a cure 
for nervous headache or the strain of the 
strenuous life I prescribe a visit to any 
playhouse where the lovely Mrs. DeBathe 
may happen to be sauntering through her 
role of Margery Beaufoy in "Between the 
Nightfall and the Light." Her perform- 
ance is as restful as the pinetree vistas 
at Lake wood, or the soothing ministra- 
tions of one's masseuse. 



When she makes her entrance one is 
startled by her youth and grace, by the 
lissomeness of her superb figure and the 
wonderful contour of her head, throat and 
shoulders. No need to ask why the lily's 
face is unlincd, no need to question why 
the curves of her throat are as perfect as 
a Rossetti drawing. The answer is in the 
placidity of her demeanor, in the immobile 
beauty of her classic features. It is pos- 
sible that Mrs. Langtry may give vent to 
occasional fits of temper — just like a regu- 
lar woman, but I doubt it. I don't believe 
she ever forgets the price women pay for 
such indulgence. Old Father Time makes 
out heavy bills against those of us whose 
human nature is unharnessed. If the old 
chap with the scythe kept books he might 
charge up to our account such items as 
the following: 

To one outburst of hysteria — four crows- 
feet. 

To one weeping spell — two wrinkles. 

To one sulky mood — three forehead fur- 
rows. 



The Eight English Primroses who made 
their debut at Hammerstein's this week 
will doubtless become a second pony bal- 
let when they go into musical comedy. In 
the hands of an American costumer there 
will be a decided improvement in the ap- 
pearance of these girls. Those purple 
jackets with the postillion backs are about 
as unbecoming a fashion as they could 
have chosen. The scarlet coats, too, worn 
when they make their entrance down the 
wooden slide, are not pretty, and are made 
less attractive by reason of the purple 
hosiery which is worn at the same time. 
The girls dance well— as do all English 
girls, and they have some really new steps 
which would be much more effective if 
their frocks were better looking. "The- 
leg-in-theair" dance, too, would be en- 
hanced bv a more artistic color combina- 
tion in the matter of hosiery and lingerie. 



Sometimes the matter of "dressing up" 
a stage plays a big part in the success of 
an act. Without wishing to discredit the 
real raison d'etre of the Fadettes orchestra 
it is my opinion that at least half the hit 
which the act makes is due to its decora- 
tive possibilities. When I dropped into 
the Fifth Avenue the other day it was 
just in time to see the curtain rise on the 
woman's orchestra, and I was very much 
impressed with the daintiness of effect 
produced by the twenty-odd young women 
in simple white frocks. 



Miss Caroline B. Nichols, the leader, is 
deserving of commendation for her black 
evening gown. She is one of the few 
women in variety sensible enough to real- 
ize that embonpoint is more successfully 
concealed beneath the medium of black 
material than in any other garb. The 
touch of white which is introduced around 
the decolletage brightens her gown ef- 
fectually. Miss Nichols is a really hand- 
some woman, and as the country news- 
papers say: "She takes her part well." 
But, oh, I do not envy the lady her posi- 
tion when it comes to the captaining of so 
much fair femininity. Fancy trying to 
keep harmony amongst all those women 
folk when the hotels are bad or the 
"jumps" are long or the dressing-rooms 
are not de luxe! 



With the best intentions in the world I 
want to call the attention of two young 
Women in Variety to my paragraph in 
this week's issue appertaining to Mrs. 
Langtry's perfect poise of manner. In fact, 
upon thinking it over, I will include three 
girls in these hints to the hoyden. First 
of all there is plump and pretty Anna 
Doherty, who with her sister Lillie seems 
to have no trouble in filling time. I want 
to suggest to her to be a little more re- 
served. We all know that the Vaudeville 
Audience likes plenty of vim from its come- 
diennes, but I do think Miss Doherty 
will improve her act by employing a 
quieter method, and while I'm on the sub- 
ject I suggest that these girls get some 
new materiaL 



I started in to point out to three young 
women the benefits to be derived from a 
little self-repression. The first were the 
Misses Doherty, the second is Miss Lang- 
'lon, of Byron and Langdon. This young 
woman's exuberance of spirit is just a bit 
annoying and I might make the same com- 
ment upon Miss Lucier of Lucy and 
Lucier. Don't be boisterous, girls! Oh, 
yes, I hear what you're saying: "STie kicks 
because Langtry doesn't act enough, and 
because we act too much — what does she 
want?" 

In the ancient days there was a philoso- 
pher called Aristotle. He preached the doc- 
trine of a happy medium. Afterward this 
became known as the "Aristotelian Mean." 
Try and discover it, girls — it is neither 
one extreme nor the other, and wha't each 
of you needs. 



Blanche Nichols, of Murphy and Nich- 
ols, is responsible for the following story; 
. While Murphy and Nichols were travelling 
from one town to another recently their 
little daughter Helen (aetat six) struck 
up the acquaintance of another small 
child. Tlie two wee girls were in the seat 
ahead when Miss Nichols overheard this 
conversation between them: 

First Little Girl: \Vhat's your name? 
Little Miss Murphy: My name's Helen. 
First Little Girl: Wliat does yot\r papa 
do? 

Li I lb- Miss Murphy: My papa's an 
aclor; what does your papa do? 

First Little Girl: He don't do anythin'. 
lie's je.s' a husband! . 



WESTERN NEWS NOTES. 

Variety's Chicago Office, 
•; ■ • 79 So. Clark St, :' 

■-'■; "■■■^'■-■'■-. •■■■ —>"''■ Oct. 19. ■■.^./■.•^■.'•: 

p. J. Robson of Lansing, Mich., has put 
up a new $28,000 theatre at Adrian, Mich. 
It will be known as the Bijou and is 
scheduled to open about November 1, , 

Another new Bijou Theatre is under 
way at Freeport, 111., and will open No- 
vember 15 under the management of A. J. 
bhimp, who controls several houses in Illi* 
nois and Wisconsin. The cost of the build- 
ing, exclusive of furnishings, is $22,000. 
Both theatres book through the Western 
Vaudeville Association. 

Hugh J. Emmett, ventriloquist and 
mimic, is now a manager. He has the 
Bijou Theatre at Grand Forks, N. D. Mr. 
Emmett was on his way East from a five 
years tour of the Pacific Coast when the 
theatre attracted his attention. ., , 

Bellclair Brothers are booked over the 
Hopkins and Anderson circuits. They go 
East in December for the first time in two 
years. . ■ , . ,. .. .. ,;,-7-.. .- 

There is a strike among chair manufac- 
turers at Freeport, 111., and as a result the 
new Majestic Theatre there is without 
seats. The opening had to be postponed 
until the labor troubles are settled. Two 
weekly bills were cancelled, all artists 
being notified in time. 

The Western Vaudeville Association will 
have a special department for fairs and 
parks next spring, with Jake Stenard and 
Frank Buck in charge. 

The International Theatre has been se- 
cured by Ellis F. Glickman for his "Yid- 
dish" stock company. 

T]\c Bijou at Anderson, Ind., opens Octo- 
ber 22 under the management of Hoyt & 
Davis. 

The Dallas State Fair at Dallas, Texas, 
the largest in the South, will have many 
new features this year. The Majestic 
Theatre in that city has been allowed to 
run Sunday performances for the first 
time in its history during the fair, which 
will last two weeks. 

Sam Soda and Ida Gladstone, the Eng- 
lish artists who made their first American 
appearance with the "Jersey Lillies" com- 
pany, failed to add much strength to the 
show and Manager Froshin let them go 
after a four weeks trial. Isabclle Hurd 
succeeded Miss Gladstone in the part. 

Carrie Seitz of the "Night Owls" com- 
pany, while playing in St. liouis the latter 
part of last week, received a telegram an- 
nouncing the death of her father in this 

city. 

Y'vette Guilbert and Albert Chevalier 
had two capacity houses at Orchestra Hall 
this week. The performance pleased. 

Harry Harvey has been engaged as lead- 
ing Hebrew comedian with a burlesque 
stock company at the Bell Theatre, Oak- 
land, Cal. He is in the olio at Euson's 
this week as an added feature with the 
"Night Owls." 

"The Broadway Cowboy," a Western dra- 
matic sketch by Jack Burnett, will be used 
by Charles Castleman -and company in 
vaudeville soon. The company includes 
Marie Yuill, Bobby Boyd, Rosa Marston 
and Berentine Knndson. 

Ferry ("th'^ human frog") has been 
booked over the Orpheum circuit. 



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VARIETY 




The vaulting ambition of the De Frece 
tour is constantly evident. It now has 
rontrol of leven halls, five Hippodromes 
and two Palaces, while new theatres being 
built at Portsmouth, Liverpool, etc., will 
probably extend the list. It is said Vesta 
TUley will not renew the Stoll tour en- 
gagements, but will be a prominent feature 
hereafter on her husband's tour. With 
Barrasford, who has eight halls, De Frece 
is very friendly and these two men are 
credited with booking designs on the Lon- 
don Empire. 

They are also working in quiet unison 
with the Broadhead tour of eight balls, and 
it would not surprise the knowing ones to 
some day see a booking amalgamation of 
the twenty-two houses controlled by this 
friendly trio. It is known that the pre- 
liminary steps have been taken and such 
a combine would no doubt extend to a 
tour of about thirty halls. It may be that 
some hint of what Ls in the wiod has 
reached Mr. Stoll and will impel him to 
closer relations with American managers. 



By C. C. BARTRAM. 
VARIETY'S London Office, 40 Liale itreet, 

with the Master of Chancery, whose de- 
cision is shortly expected. Both parties 
say if they fail to get the house they will 
break out in some other place. 



W. 



As regards the Anglo-Continental com- 
bine, it would seem from our tale that 
Director Stoll dismissed it ^ith "a smile 
that was childlike and bland." The fact 
is that both English and Continental man- 
agers have had separate organizations for 
a long time, and could easily be linked 
together for any common purpose. Tbe 
Continental combine is not deeply loved 
by artists, through its blacklisting methods 
and "Department of Publicity," which cir- 
culates publicity of the wrong kind. If 
an artist falls down and steps on himself 
it is known all over Europe in a moment, 
and sometimes if he resists injustice com- 
mon cause is made against him. This so- 
ciety seeks ascendency over the association 
in London, and if given fair chance it 
would, as a very shrewd Londoner told me 
with a smile, "ride the great English jack- 
ass as long as it could be ridden.** 



On return from America Oswald Stoll is 
silent as "old husband Egypt," his doings 
with millionaire magnate Keith and the 
useful but troublesome artists being, as a 
London paper puts It, "wrapt in mystery." 

The world federation of managers w6uld 
seem to have "died a-bornin,* " but every 
one hopes the great English director has 
good news hidden up his sleeve concerning 
the magnificent Coliseum. At present he 
has stopped off in Liverpool and every one 
awaits his oracular utterance. 



Tn my article on London salaries a con- 
flict between pound and dollar signs makes 
a record minimum salary figure as five 
pounds instead of five dollars weekly. 



The tiger goes batk In his jungle if he 
makes one jump and fails, but not so Colo- 
nel Mapleson, who after his failure to get 
the Coliseum for the break-up price of 
$700,000, has made the same offer for the 
Lyceum freehold. The solicitors represent- 
ing the first debenture mortgages have ac- 
cepted this, but objection has been raised 
by the eecond debenture and shareholders, 
who rather favor the Sinn and Shirley 
melodramatic scheoie. The matter now lies 



WillianL^E. Burke, the old-time Ameri- 
can clown and later the popular comedian 
with Burke, Andrus and Frisco, died las: 
Friday, October 5, of gastritis, at Hudders- 
field. He had been appearing at the Hip- 
podrome in the sketch "London to Madrid.'* 
He was the father of Blanche and Billie 
Burke, the latter the star of Stoll's Colis- 
eum revue, and was universally respected 
and beloved. 



Six convictions for pirating music have 
just been secured In the courts. 

Cadle's Agency lost a suit against R. A. 
Roberts for $400 commission on American 
engagements. Contracts were sent him but 
returned, along with an intimation that he 
would not be able to fill them on account 
of other engagements. Afterward it was 
learned he had signed through Marinelll. 
Roberts said he was the first agent offering 
"binding engagements," and he was advised 
to say nothing about the matter to Cadle*s. 
In giving judgment the court said Roberts 
was ill advised when told to withhold from 
Cadle's that he was negotiating with an- 
other firm of agents. 



Miss Vanity, of Curtis an8 Vanity, found 
Thursday's three shows at the Holborn 
Empire too much for her delicate condi- 
tion, her arduous tumbling, with a little 
slip into the footlights, superinducing a 
trouble which may incapacitate her tot 
some weeks. 



Archdeacon Colley, rector of Stockton, 
Warwickshire, Is quite credulous as to 
spirit manifestations, and told the famous 
magical producer, J. N. Mdikelyne, that 
he would pay him $5,000 if he would pro- 
duce on the stage such a manifestation as he 
claimed to have seen years ago, in which 
vapor gathered and, in the presence of 
witnesses, materialized into corporeal form. 
Mr. Mnskelyne. who is now nearing three 
score atid ten and is up to most of tte 
tricks, concluded to accept this priestly 
challenge, and last Monday, with an as- 
sistant whe played the part of a clergy- 
man, assumed the role of a medium. In a 
protended trance he brought from his side 
to the accompaniment of slow music, first 
the hand and then the body of a very 
much alive young woman dressed In flow- 
ing garments, with golden and poetic hair. 
The ghost raising was in every way a 
perfect illusion, and tlie limelight was 
turned on the fair face of the spirit to 
show she was there in the flesh. 

If the holy Archdeacon does not produce 
his cash within the time of one week Ihe 
wizard of St. George*s Hall will try to 
recover a thousand pounds by law, a slower 
method of getting money than picking It 
out of t4ie air. 



The Six Brothers Luck have had enough 
of the article they are named for to regis- 
ter a company to exploit sketches, with $5,- 
000 capital. 



Editor Stead's free-lancing of the Pa- 
vilion, with an accidental puff of La Milo, 
has given said living statue the greatest 
advertisement of her life. A big agent 
told me Oswald Stoll wouldn't hear of La 
Milo for his ultra-classic halls till the man 
who wrote "What Christ Would Do iu 
Cliicago" gave her his stamp of opproval. 
Even at that the contract was not con- 
firmed till Stoll was well to sea. 



After four years* absence touring the 
world, Maud Sims-Reeves, wife of the 
famous tenor, has been booked by Somers 
and Warner to play the Walter Gibbons 
circuit. She starts this week at the 
Islington Empire, singing songs from her 
late husband's repertoire in the style that 
he taught her. 



The Belfast Hippodrome, now building 
at a cost of $125,000, has a ground lease 
timed to run "ten thousand years." 



George Robey got $1,500 for two shows 
nightly during his week at Glasgow, and 
it Is said Ada Reeve will receive the same 
sum for a week at the Glasgow Pavilion. 
Robey jumped a lot of dates to get away 
to South Africa, but was armed with a 
doctor's order for a sea voyage. 



It is said that cut-rate returns are being 
offered all artists for further engagements 
on our most prominent tour, and with sal- 
aries going down instead of up the ten- 
dency is to emigrate. News arrives of 
forty American acts that decided to stay 
home until English conditions grow livelier, 
and the number of Yankees now en tour is 
noticeably less than ever. 



At a Palace Theatre shareholders' meet- 
ing there was some little talk about the 
five per cent dividend and a suggestion 
that next year it might be nothing at all. 
After the usual remarks about "theatrical 
depression" Mr. Ernest suggested the need 
of an experienced manager and said they 
had a lot of amateurs governing their af~ 
fairs. This little outbreak was strongly 
resented by the chairman, T. Ernest Pol- 
den, who explained how things would be 
better "in the sweet bye-and-bye." 



During last week eighty accessions 
swelled the Federation membership to 
3,087. The insular artists of this small, 
but great, island have lately taken a very 
broad-minded attitude and sincerely desire 
a friendly afliliation with brother artists 
in etery part of the world. There is no 
question about the starry prominence of 
many of the Federation members, and no 
organization of artists can claim prouder 
names. The latest evolution is the I^adies' 
Guild under V. A. F. auspices. It meets 
at the Savoy Hotel and embraces star 
names from Marie Lloyd downward. The 
general feeling Is that a world-wide aflfiilia- 
tion will come. If it comes slowly that 
will be by reason of Its having been well 
thought out and put together on safe and 
coBser?ative lines. 



SOUTH AFRICA 

By TOUCHSTONE. 

(of the "South African News.") 



("Toucbstoue" Is the pen name made well known 
by D. A. Booosaler, of the Sooth African News. 
Mr. Boonsaier la the recognised authority . on 
matters theatrical In the far distant country, and 
Is especially well versed on TaudevlUe. having 
often been quoted by Variety. Variety an- 
nounces with pleasure that "Touchatone" will 
contribute regularly to Its columns. — Bd.) 



Cape Town, Sept. 16. 

In America it seems to me the "last 
word" can never be said in regard to nov- 
elty, and novelty is what we are ever cry- 
ing out for at the music hall. Brother 
Jonathan is always thinking. When you 
decide that an American act is pretty 
nearly perfect Its originator is planning 
changes In It. Out here In South Africa 
people are perhaps beginning to tire a little 
of the "coon" song — managers are to blame 
for having overdone the business — but 
apart from this we have to thank America 
for some of the finest turns seen at the 
music hall. 

The present bill at the Tivoli Theatre, 
Cape Town's only music hall, holds the 
name of one of ther most popular American 
artists ever sent to this country — May 
Moore-Duprez, "The Jolly Dutch Girl." 
This vivacious and sprightly little woman 
sang and danced her way into the hearts of 
Colonial playgoers three years ago when 
she first visited us under the Empire man- 
agement; and tJhis, her second Cape Town 
season. Is as successful as the last. Few 
artists have endeavored to copy her style 
and those who have done so have failed. 

In the same program with Miss Duprez 
we have Phil and Nettie Peters, also from 
the lands of the stars and stripes. Though 
the humor of these artists appeals to me in 
a spasmodic fashion, I frankly confess 
their great popularity with the public. 
There is plenty of animation and spirit 
about everything they do, but Mr. Peters' 
"business" is not always in good taste. 

Libby Arnold (Blondell), who occupied 
a place in the previous bill, somehow failed 
to hit the popular taste. In Johannesburg, 
I am told, her act excited hostile comment. 
She is an excellent singer, hut I fancy her 
appearance does not harmonize with senti- 
mental ballads. 

Going back still further. I recall one of 
the most successful acts ever placed before 
a South African audience in that presented 
by De Witt, Burns and Torrance, entitled 
"The Awakening of Toys," I can say un- 
hesitatingly that this turn brought out 
the wholesale admiration of the house each 
night. The originator, Mr. De Witt, de- 
serves the highest praise for the inge- 
nuity displayed in its planning. It is 
acrobatics reduced to a fine art. The 
music is singularly pretty and appro- 
priate. "* . 

Meir and Mora had the mi.sfortune to ap- 
pear in a company composed of very in- 
ferior talent. Hie wonderful ball punching 
of the man met with unstinted praise, but 
the turn is lacking in humor as a contrast. 
Mr. MeIr should look out for a clever 
comedian, who would help to lengthen the 
act and throw into relief the skill of the 
leader. 

Ella Shields is booked to reappear here 
early in December. She is assnred of a 
warm welcome at the hands of eld Tiv- 
olians. 



Austin Walsh, a Leeds vocalist, was 
found dead in bed with the gas turned 
full on. Verdict "accidentally ■uffocated." 



VARIETY 



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■^■Vt M^VaVI^^ 



Shows of the Week 



By Rush 



MERRY BURLESQUERS. 

A docidedly good balance of those three 
oKM'Dtial elemenls of burledque — comedians, 
girl8 and properly dressed musical numbers 
— «re in Miner's "Merry Burlesquers" at 
the Dewey this week. Teddy Simmons, 
Nettie Nelson and Phil Ott are featured 
in the program tyi^e and have the burden 
of the entertainment on their shoulders. 

There are real laughs in the work of 
Simmons, Ott, Ambark Ali and Al Sted- 
man, which are developed rather by their 
own individual efforts than by the lines. 

Madge Anderson, Dot West and Dorothy 
Warde figure to a considerable extent. 
The Indian chorus in the first act would 
be better if the girls all followed the style 
in dresKing shown by Miss Anderson, who 
leudH. 

Miss Warde's mission is to display her 
curves, in which she is particularly fortu- 
nate, although her appearance is made 
the occa.sion for several jokes that do not 
belong in the drawing-room class. Tlie 
show ia fairly free fmni suggeativeness. 

The olio is somewhat injured by same- 
ness. There are three acts of almost 
identical makeup. Simmons and Ward, 
Ott and Nelson and Ford and Dot West 
make three of the five numbers, and al- 
though none follows the style of the others, 
the appearance of three teams gives the 
effect of monotony. 

The Wests closed the olio with practi- 
cally the same act they have shown in 
vaudeville. Ali, Hunter and Ali do not 
use half enough acrobatics. They persist 
in filling up with limitless clowning and 
knockabout. A fast and furious finish gets 
them off the stage well. 

Simmons and Warde get away with a 
talking and singing act through the clever 
comedy of Simmons, but it occurs that in 
the present makeup of the olio they would 
do better with a full stage and some sort 
of a sketch structure to hang Simmons' 
funniments upon. 

W. S. Harvey holds so much to balanc- 
ing work that it would become monotonous 
were it not for the comedy supplied by the 
woman assistant. She should be given a 
free hand in this sort of work. The more 
of it they get across the footlights the 
better. 

Phil Ott and Nettie Nelson are billed as 
singers and dancers, but the former half 
of the caption is the important one. 

The chorus sings well but rather lacks 
the snap that should go with so well ap- 
pearing dozen of girls. The finale was one 
of the best numbers. 



THOROUGHBREDS. 

Had Frank B. Carr provided for this 
year's "Thoroughbreds" as good a gen- 
oral ensemble of costuming and stage 
dressing as his comedians have contributed 
in cleverness of comedy work the average 
of excellence would stand considerably 
higher than it does. At that the entertain- 
ment shows up well on the whole. 

Its strength is in the skill of its prin- 
cipals. Charles Douglas does exceedingly 
well with an Irish dialect role in the open- 
ing, displaying a style of humor that has 
more than mere talk and dialect twists. 
He is ably assisted by Carrol Henry, who 
plays a Hebrew. Dan Riley and Charles 
Niblo also work to good advantage in this 
part, the former as a bellboir showing a 
bit 91 amusing knockabout. 



Blanche Washburn and Josie Flynn 
furnish the leaders for the majority of 
numbers and are almost the only women 
in the organization who appear to have 
spent great time or money upon their 
wardrobe. •■.: ''•::'':" 

Mile. La Toska, an agreeable-looking 
young woman, opened the olio with a con 
tortion act following somewhat the style 
of Mile. Latona. The offering is good 
for burlesque purposes, but would be con- 
siderably improved by a freer use of the 
spot light. 

Henry and Frances handle a semi- 
travesty sketch with good judgment, 
making their points score with regularity 
and force. The dialogue also is written 
more brightly than that usually heard in 
this class and is enriched with a quantity 
of first rate business, doubtless as inter- 
polated by the principals. 

Carrol Henry and Harry McAvoy have 
a unique and effective makeup as coal 
heavers with good dialogue and business 
to go with it in the burlesque. While 
they hold to this characterization they do 
exceptionally well. 

The Misses Washburn and Flynn have 
the best number of the show in the second 
part. It involves half a dozen girls 
dressed as bootblacks and as many other 
girls to display their garters in the boot- 
blacking process. It was good for half a 
dozen encores in spite of an unruly au- 
dience. 

The girls have a first-rate "sister act" 
in the olio which is away from the or- 
dinary pale dancing and singing specialty 
and makes opportunity for some first-rate 
burlesque comedy. 

Niblo and Riley do well with their danc- 
ing and singing, particularly the "loose" 
dance of the tall man, who is as good a 
"tapper" as any to be seen. The Laurent 
Trio in a gymnastic act have a real 
novelty. There is a quantity of striking 
work in the act, which is w^ell dressed and 
performed with skill and smoothness. 



K££N£Y*S. 

Away over in the middle part of Brook- 
lyn a considerable number of people drop 
into Keeney's Theatre each week. If they 
have good memories there is a chance that 
when an act is seen for the second time it 
may be recognized. The program is no 
aid. The names of the different numbers 
are guessed at, and in about one case out 
of four the spelling is correct. Either the 
program maker or the plumber who prints 
it is at fault. 

This week the local debut of the Sea- 
brooke and Hall combination is the feature. 
Tliat with Johnston and Hardy and Tom 
Brantford are under New Acts. 

The Faust Family open the bill with 
capital acrobatics. The quartet is ' made 
up of two boys and a pretty little girl 
beside the man who does the heavy work 
of the act. The best of it is in "Risley" 
work, which includes some fast and strik- 
ing tricks. The encore should be worked 
up better. Some sensational feat involving 
as many of the people as possible should 
be used, and they should get down to the 
team work immediately instead of spread- 
ing out the encore with several single 
tricks. 

Wilson and Winters working In black- 
face do exceedingly well with their danc- 
ing. The smaller of the men does a dance 



that compares with almost any that has 
been seen lately hereabouts, showing some 
new steps and odd combinations. This end 
of the team also has the better voice, but 
his partner gets away capably with his 
comedy. There is very little talk in the 
act, a wiiie arrangement. 

Lawrence and Harrington use a l«ose 
comedy sketch called "Instalments," the 
man working in much the style of Al Stin- 
son, of Stinson and Merton, but without 
his oily smoothness. They get their best 
laugh from the swiftness with which the 
stage hands, supposedly instalment men, 
strip the stage. A song by the comedian 
in which he struggles to use all the street 
car advertising sings was a real aflSiction. 
Some of the early talk of the pair was 
bright and pointed and the Bowery dance 
gave a good finish. 

The Barber-Ritchie Trio close JJie bill 
with their excellent bicycle act. The lay- 
out of their tricks remains unchanged since 
shown at the New York Roof. All three 
work together to good purpose, the straight 
and comedy ends dividing the labors with 
good judgment. 

The Estrella Sisters in a straight musical 
act would have a better opening nuinber 
in one of the more familiar of the light 
operatic songs, instead of the heavy selec- 
tion they use. Their instrumental solos 
were well received. 



GOTHAM, BROOKLYN. 

With Ward and Curran in the headline 
position and Hoey ond Lee and Howard 
and Linder among the starters, the Gotham 
bill is admirably laid out for laughing 
purposes. 

The Hebrew dialect comedians provoked 
a riot. The audience would not be satis- 
fied with the regular number of parodies, 
and if the pair had any more when they 
finally quit they had to write them in 
the wings. The talk did not go so well. 

Ward and Curran were even more riot- 
ously popular with the East New York 
audience. The comedy of "Tlie Terrible 
Judge" undeniably savors of wild burlesque 
running to travesty, but in a childlike way 
is insistently funny. 

Carlisle and Baker in the bad position of 
opening the second half fared less well. 
One waits in vain during the act for a 
Hash of humor and is rewarded at the end 
by nothing more amusing than an exposi- 
tion of Rubenstein's "Melody in F," ar- 
ranged with ragtime trimmings. As a 
straight musical act the offering does well 
enough, but vaudeville tlientregoers demand 
some comedy. A "coon" song of the right 
.sort would help a good deal. 

Orville and Frank opened with a capital 
acrobatic act showing a good degree of 
variety. They open with perch work of a 
sort, the boy being the mounter, while 
the apparatus is supported by the pedal 
juggler. They go to "Risley" work later, 
showing a good routine, although a greater 
number of different feats could be given. 
They hold too much to the more striking 
work involving somersaults and there is 
no relief. The singles and doubles to the 
mat would look better did the pair work 
up to them through a series of simpler 
tricks. 

Rita Curtis, violinist, needs both advice 
in the dressing of her art and training in 
her stage deportment. A medley of Irish 



airs at the finish was the one feature that 
won her casual applause. Up to that her 
work was mechanical. Her peculiar stiff- 
ness of manner has the effect of repelling 
her audiences. 

Irene Lee's two "Kandy Kids" are im- 
proving at every showing. Young Lee par- 
ticularly gives promise of some day reach- 
ing high place among dancers. The act 
remains unchanged. 

Howard and Linder did very wejl with 
their German dialect comedy act. Miss 
Linder looks exceedingly good in a black 
velvet gown and Howard makes his lan- 
guage twists funny without getting Inte 
the knockabout. The Piccolo Midgets 
closed. 



HAMMERSTEIN'S. 

An orgy of headliners and familiar regu- 
lars ace at the Big Corner this week. 
Harry Tate's "Fishing^ holds over for its 
second week. In the new sketch the Eng- 
lishman has given the negative to the 
George M. Cohan dictum that "There's 
Nothing New Beneath the Sun," for in 
this offering there is a refreshing variation 
from all the lines of vaudeville humor with 
which American theatregoers are familiar. 

Bransby Williams has switched his char- 
acter sketches about somewhat to thfi un- 
deniable improvement of his performance. 
The grumbling miser Smallweed, from 
Dickens' "Bleak House," takes the place of 
Bill Sykes, and the Grandfather from "Old 
Curiosity Shop" has been eliminated. 
Smallweed is by long odds the best thing 
Williams does. His character creations, 
for they attain the dignity of that descrip- 
tion, are all the more remarkable in that 
they are made to live by mere makeup 
and voice and without the surroundings 
of story or "atmosphere." •' . 

Frank Byron, of Byron and Langdon, in 
"The Dude Detective," has uncovered a 
distinctive vein of comedy. There is the 
substance of real humor in his characteri- 
zation that is missing from the others. The 
talk is funny at all times, and the laughs 
are plenty. 

The Eight English Primroses lose the 
immediate appeal of the old "pony ballet" 
because of a raggedness in the assorted 
sizes of the girls. They have a first-rate 
entrance down a slide, and when they get 
to their dancing do very nicely. The open- 
ing song rather missed fire. 

George B. Reno and company have 
passed up the time-honored burlesque of 
a baseball game, replacing it with a ridic- 
ulous drill that should in a short time 
make a big laughing feature. The acro- 
batics of the two youngsters has been cut 
'way down, but the old finish in "one" 
has been retained. Except where this is 
demanded for stage setting purposes the 
business could be done away with. 

Wilson Hallet opened the bill with his 
child impersonations. The Hammerstein 
audience liked the specialty. The Doherty 
Sisters have a new burlesque impersona- 
tion or two, not to speak of becoming new 
Rowns of a pretty shade of brown. 

Billy (Single) Clifford found the Ham- 
merstein crowd hard to work up to singing 
choruses, but oauizlit them on the final 
whoop, jind .Tpwrll's Ma nikin.s were equal to 
the dilTicult task of keeping the audience 
in its seats at 11:15. There have been 
some oh:inges in ^lie layout of the act and 
a foN new r>' '^anical features are noted. 



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VARXSTT 



Shows of the Week 



By Sime 



GAY MASQUERADESS. 

Without the regulation "Dutch" and 
"Hebrew" characters, and with only three 
changes of costume for the chorus, Sam 
Scribner*! "Gay Masqueraders," playing at 
the Murray Ilill Theatre this week, lands 
in the front row of burlesque shows, both 
for quality and cleanliness. 

It is not because there are five good 
comedians, nor that Blossom Seeley is a 
corking soubrette^ ■ nor does the show at- 
tain that position through the beauty of 
its chorus; it's caused through the man- 
ner in which the program has been laid 
out and the show "put on.* 

While the costume changes are meagre 

in comparison to some organizations which 

give all attention to this part of the en- 
tertainment, the dressing is up to the best 
that has been shown in burlesque this 
season. 

Singing numbers are plentiful, and this 
serves to keep the comedians down. In 
consequence, the comedy through the show 
is laughable. You are not surfeited with 
it, and a travesty in the first part, "The 
Fixer," written by James E. Cooper, is 
much enjoyed, although one lonely "blad- 
der^ makes its appearance, the only symp- 
tom of "slapstick" during the perform- 
ance. 

In the burlesque "Homeward Bound" 
John J. Black, the author of it, has turned 
out a creditable piece of work and it has 
been well staged. The dialogue is good, 
the comedy amusing, and there is a tall 
girl who wears tights that returns you the 
price of admission for the sight. 

Mr. Cooper, who appears in both pieces 
besides the olio, taking a chance with one 
line, is "hogging" a little. There is an- 
other comedian in the outfit and that is 
Dave Conroy, who plays an Irishman and 
requires no points on the character from 
any one. Cooper has considerable extem. 
matter on tap, readily appreciated, but 
not so much perhaps in the Murray Hill, 
where the audience is still new enough to 
discuss the "plot." 

Mr. Black is poorly cast as a French- 
man at the start, but fully amends with 
his "rube" in the hitter half. Charles Far- 
rell could improve his Italian, but the 
negro, which he does in the olio, is excel- 
lent. 

Miss Seeley is the life of the female 
contingent. She looks well on the stage, 
can "shout" a coon song, and knows how 
to dance, even with a hand-embroidered 
black jet skirt and stockings instead of 
tights. The hard work she does, however, 
has ruined her speaking voice. Mabelle 
Darr, her partner, also presents a pretty 
stage appearance, and the two give a 
lively "sister" art between the pieces. 

Lucia Cooper is the attractive looking 
girl in tights, and Lena La Couvier is bur- 
dened with the impression she can sing. 
That may be, but those in front did not 
grow enthusiastic over her selections. 

Julia Darby from the chorus receives a 
"notice" from Cooper while on the stage, 
he kindly mentioning her name in the 
event of "supper parties" being in front. 
This also happens with the Dupree Sisters, 
likewise in the ranks, and who may 
be heard shouting their choruses with a 
French accent. "Ze" is the cue. 



IDEALS. 

There have been a number of changes In 
Williams' "Ideals" from last season. The 
piece which is new and runs in two acts 
has been named "The Other Fellow," writ- 
ten by Alf Grant. It tells an intelligible 
story and after the intermission the plot is 
allowed a rest while a female minstrel 
first part is having its fling. 

The minstrel number is a "hold over" 
from last year, but is newly costumed with 
bright and attractive dressing. Margie 
Hilton is one of the "ends." She sings a 
"coon" song earlier. Miss Hilton gives a 
perfect imitation of congealed moisture. 
Perhaps the knowledge of knowing that 
she has an attractive stage presence creates 
the chilliness, but it causes the loss of her 
audience. 

The jokes told^ by the minstrel misses 
are not so mildewed as formerly. One 
seems too spicy for Mr. Williams to drop. 
It prevents "clean" being attached. 

Frank O'Brien, Katherine Klare and 
Clayton Frye are the former members now 
with the company. Mr. O'Brien is prac- 
tically carrying the entire piece. There 
are two or three laughable bits. The come- 
dy pleases more, and even his specialty, 
introduced incidentally, is fresher. In it 
he sings a song and a parody, the latter 
having been first sung in vaudeville. 

Miss Klare sings Hibernian songs iu 
the first part, wearing a dress causing her 
to look almost matronly. It is too quiet 
for her and burlesque. Frye is giving a 
good performance in a straight part, but 
the remainder of the men do not figure 
in the piece. All attempt comedy in some 
form and fail. 

A bright little person is Emma Zeph, 
with magnetism and some dancing ability. 
Her misfortune is in having "Emancipa- 
tion Day" fall to her lot. A more modern 
song should be given her. Mabel Johnson in 
a character part is too grotesquely made up. 

The opening chorus is lively ; likewise 
the beginning of the second half, but the 
finales have not been well arranged or 
thought out. There are sixteen well- 
dressed girls and they seem to fill the stage 
whenever upon it. Two novel numbers are 
among several singing pieces requiring 
change^;, and Bessie Little with Lillian 
Carters, both from the ranks, are given in- 
dividual chances. 

Tlie "turns" are neatly worked into the 
piece. The olio has in it only the Inter- 
national Musical Trio, who play well 
enough on the brasses for the average audi- 
ence. Ali and Peyser are mildly liked with 
fair acrobatics and comedy. 

The "Ideals" is not as good a show as 
Williams turned out last season, but still 
it is far above the present average. 



COLONIAL. 

Th»> hill at the Colonial simmers down 
this w^ek until at the close there is not 
a remf ni^hrnnce left. Of the three numbers 
under New Acts (Josephine Cohan, Maude 
Courtenay and the Metropolis Quartet) 
neither earned distinction. The feature 
of the show. The Great Lafayette, through 
the same poor program arrangement that 
marked this combination act when re- 
cently shown at Hammerstein's, entirely 
effaced the remnants of whatever humor 
he had aroused previously with imper- 
sonations by "The Medicine Man." 



On early, Hoey and Lee did the most 
of those on the bill with parodies. A 
new Irish medley takes the place of the 
former patriotic one and there is another 
on a current popular song which pleases. 
The rest, both songs and talk, is the same. 
Laveen and Cross in exhibitions of 
strength and muscles gave a good opening 
number. The strong work is well handled, 
making a showy performance, but the 
cabinet posing might at least be shortened. 
This proved the undoing of Sandow on the 
stage. People do not care to see huge 
bunches of muscles. The display of ab- 
normal development is not an attractive 
sight to man or woman. 

The dialogue has been brightened up in 
"The Modern Jonah,** which is the latest 
sketch by Foy and Clark. The finale 
needs to be finished off in some way. It 
is now too abrupt. On Monday night 
little applause greeted the close, although 
laughter followed the progress of the piece. 
Mr. Foy might meet a fish on his upward 
flight, having a battle in midair and giving 
the exit laugh. 

n»e monologue of Fred Niblo's remains 
the same. Mr. Niblo told in London what 
he is telling now, but did not bring back 
any English stories or remarks touching 
upon the other side. Perhaps the monol- 
ogist did not see anything funny enough 
to tell about. A long trip abroad might 
have suggested something new for home 
consumption. 



PASTOR'S. 



An overplus of singing, several "freak" 
voices and two protean sketches were all 
bundled together on the Pastor bill this 
week, not forgetting a couple of men with 
the foolish opinion they were comediamt 
because they wore corsets. 

Of the protean skett-hes, that played by 
Roland West and called "The Ctiminal," 
by W. H. Clifford, was the big hit. It is 
the first sketch of this nature played at 
the house and the audience was intensely 
interested. Mr. West is giving a good 
show, and for a young man shows great 
promise in character work. There is a 
"fighting" finish to one scene, well worked, 
and it helps the piece. West might con- 
sider if it is not advisable to change the 
character of the tramp, making the mur- 
derer a typical touyh. One or two other 
minor defects could be looked after. The 
supporting company is excellent, and of 
J. J. Sambrook, who plays a police in- 
spector, it can be said that he plays the 
part superior to any actor who has ap- 
peared in a like capacity among the many 
similar plays. 

The other protean offering (Little Garry 
Owen) with Daisy and Florence D'Arco, 
Ross and Lewis, the Rich Duo and Lillian 
Waltone are under New Acts. 

Emma Krause and Lillian Beach with 
two "picks" won out through the colored 
youngsters, although both women attempted 
singing high-grade songs without success, 
the vocal effort of Miss Beach suggesting 
a bad cold, and the Four D'Elmar Brothers 
in barrel jumping proved how easily bad 
comedy may be made through imitation by 
helping themselves to the opening of Spis- 
sell Brothers and Mack's act. The jumping 
fell down quite as hard. 

Huston and Dallas have improved won- 
derfully. Mr. Huston is juggling much 



more cleanly and his comedy has kept 
pace. Some of the old matter has been 
retained and could be dropped. The act 
might be shortened to allow of this. If 
the improvement continues be will eventu- 
ally have a valuable act. 

More improved comedy is that offered by 
Hairy Sloan, of Sousa and Sloan. The 
man now makes up and does some good 
work, but should eliminate the matured 
matter and all effeminacy. Mile. Sousa 
has a handsome and expensive new dress. 
A glass clock face with a magic hand has 
been added for a good finish to her sleight- 
of-hand performance. 

Jacobs and Van Tyle ought to join a 
burlesque company and develop, if possible. 
El Nino and Eddy opened the show andj 
Grace Childers appeared early in her con- 
tortion specialty. 



UNION SQUARE. 

At almost the height of the political 
campaign Cliff Gordon steps on the Keith 
stage this week with one of the best bal- 
anced monologues ever offered in vaude- 
ville. It takes in all current events, lin- 
gering not too long on any one, and is par- 
ticularly apropos of each subject. Mr. 
Gordon could be accused of partisanship 
in his remarks on the local gubernatorial 
nominees did he not offer an explanatory 
note in answer to the applause. The talk 
throughout is enjoyable because it is fresh 
and scores an immense hit. There is 
genuine humorous philosophy contained in 
a great deal Mr. Gordon says. 

Charles E. Evans in "It's Up to You, 
William," the Elinore Sisters and the Sis- 
ters O'Meers gave a strong finish to the 
bill. Everhart and Maybelle Meeker are 
under New Acts. 

Paul Kleist returned after a long ab- 
sence with "black art," featuring music as 
a side line, and Mr. Kleist was liked by 
the matinee audience. Max Witt's "Sing- 
ing Colleens," now drp.ssed in becoming 
green costumes, are obliged to sing their 
Irish melodies in a Venetian setting. Not 
one of the four girls properly apply the 
rouge and a few lessons should be taken. 

Why Ethel Iloag appears with Alf Grant 
does not become known during the mono- 
logue Mr. Grant is giving, allowing Miss 
Iloag to appear now and then in it 

In his imitations Willie Weston selects 
Joe Welch and Geo. M. Cohan. He also 
sings a song with an Italian makeup and 
dialect which is Willie Weston's own, al- 
though any number are doing the same 
thing in burlesque. Mr. Weston was obliged 
to respond to the encores with a speech. 
Weston is young and has future if he 
takes care of it. 

The Prampin Musical Trio, colored, 
played bugle calls, trick and otherwise, 
and the woman in it sings. That was the 
worst thing she did, although the music 
ran a pretty close race. 

Hughes and Brown replaced Bonnie 
Gaylord. The "straight" man talks too 
fast and advertises a music publisher. 
The comedian's ideas of comedy are not 
always in line with the audience's opinion, 
and what few jokes he has are given too 
much time in the telling. The Mozarts in 
"The Cobbler's Dream" seem to have con- 
densed the sketch somewhat to its ad- 
vantage, and it might be still further re- 
duced by the dropping of some unneces- 
sary dialogue and business. 



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CHICAGO. ILL. 

By FRANK WIEBBEBO. 

VARIB5TY*S Chicago Office, 
79 S. Clark Street. 
MAJESTIC (Lyman B. OloTer, mgr. for Kohl 
Sr Cattle. Monday rehearsal U). — The writer of 
'The Fifth Commandment" lua g^ven Juliu« 
Sieger and conipHuy a more than delightful and 
ii.ttnscly r.bsorblny bit of sentlm^'nt than 1» ««n- 
I'lly found. The dramatic playlet la beautifully 
ctuiHtructed. Tlie audience evinced unusual in- 
terest in the art and Mr. Steger responded with 
a sp4>eeh after nine curtain ealla. Nick Long 
imd Idalene Cotton present "My Wife's Dla- 
niendH." a protean sketch with dramatic situa- 
ticns In whieli they display their versatile taleutu 
to excellent advantage. The characterizations are 
artistli'. Ttie Kight VasHar Uirla Introduce their 
fauiillar singing and iuHtrumental act and Carlin 
and Utto liave u lot of good talk with a few 
r.uiuHing pariMlleH. The Belle<>lalr Brothers dis- 
play strength and dexterity in physical culture 
exhibitions. The hand balancing and other re- 
markable work in this line have seldom been seen 
l.ere. One of the brothers p(>rforms a veritable 
Wcndetful feat in the leap of twenty feet through 
the air, inndin;; on the other's outstretched hands. 
Mile. Friuila Kuxe gives an interesting acrolmtic 
IMTformHnee. She is aHsiHted by three well-trained 
dogs in some of the feats, including equilibrlsm. 
Heatrlee .McKenzle was In fine voice and repeated 
he." |>revioiiB Huccess with her songs. An enter- 
tiiliihi^ eomedy sketch entitled "A Matrimonial 
Mlxup" lntro4luced (irace Huntington and company 
and the audience likes the offering. Early and 
luite, tie(»rge Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Daly and 
(Irace II«>o|»eH are on the bill. The seventeen 
IVkln Zouaves closed. 

OI.VMIMC (A!ie Jacobs, mgr. for Kohl & Castle. 
M« nday rehearsal 9). — Coram finishes his third aD<l 
last week here. He baa met with much success. 
Harry ant! Kate Jackson present a mirth-provok- 
lug fiiiee, "His Day Off," intelligently and most 
eapablv lUted. The bill also consists of Carson 
and W'lllard, Wllla Holt Wakefield, Swor Brothers, 
Shlehls and Uogers, McOee and Collins. Nellie 
Kevelle, .Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hunn, Ashton and 
Kurle :in«1 DuujrlaH and Douglas. 

HAYMAUKKT (Wm. Newklrk, mgr, for Kohl 
& Ca-ttle).— Tl»e bill Is composed of Virginia Earl 
and her "Johnnies," Felix. Barry and Barry, 
Tarry Bi others, Knight Brothers and Sawtelle, 
Maxi'iz and Maxette, Argyra Kastrou. Frankie La 
.March", Jiijrtjiliig Thorns, Mahoney Brothers, the 
Onzos and Jarvis and Tudor. 

MD J. Kl SON'S (Sid J. Euson. mgr.).— There 
was iiu unusually large and re8|K>uslve audience 
at Eus«.n's Siind.-iy afternoon. The opening piece, 
"A lolly Bachelor." presented by the "Night 
owls." is given In two scenes, the secmd evidently 
an ex. use to allow the clearing of the full stage 
for the tlrst olio numls'r. A sextet fills in the 
lime. No attempt has l»een made to enhance the 
qujilitv of the material, which is in many In- 
st an«es n inliilscent of stock burlesque. The plot 
is unfuldtd in dialogue and loses itself lietween 
the enuMullon of coiuplica thins and musical num- 
»Mrs. It Is a mistake to allow all the principals 
to partl.iiiate in the "Camping Time" number 
with till' elioius during the action of the piece. 
(»iie or two nie supp<»t«ed to l)e exalted personages, 
and their su.lden intimacy with the chorus in this 
ntann.r Is not reasonably feasible and lessens the 
\hhU' of the characters. The burlesque 'Tiie 
Devils Knehnntnieut." has a bewildering plot and 
situations, similar in theme to "Faust." with 
.Mephlsto as the central figure In dramatic oratory 
that thrilled the house. It nearly approaches tiie 
extravaganza stvle, but has Insufflclent embellish- 
nsents to give it ^le spectacular aspect desired. 
In the company are several who appean'd here 
last season. Car'. Anderson gives evidence of 
genuine dramatic ability. Ills delivery is eloquent 
and voleo resonnnt, Carrie Seltz has the leading 
fenuih' part, altout the only important one in the 
slMtw. .She lo<»ked handsome In an elaborate white 
gown, h»T changed slender and stately appearance 
giving new charm and grace. A cold prevented 
her sliigluK. Frank Harcourt is at his b«'st in a 
tri.nip part. He was agreeable throughout. Irene 
Duke is pretty and dainty as a soul)rette. The 
prevailing color In costuming is black and white 
and there are several changes, two or three of 
them showing exquisite designs. The girls are 
shai>ely, sing fairly gtHHl in low voices and do very 
w«'ll in evolutions, although a little more anima- 
tion and ginger would go a long way. Belle Hath- 
away's monkeys and balH>ons give an Interesting 
|M'rforman<e. Frank Harcourt appears in story 
telllug and songs and Howell and Emerson proved 
excellent dancers nnd ctwnedlans with g«>od meth- 
o<ls. Bi'll and Ilenrr, comedy acrobats, have a 
lot of hard fails and their antics provoke laugli- 
ter. They are also good acrobats. Moving pic- 
tures of the Cans Nelson fight are introduced In 
the olio. 

FOI.LY (J. A. Fennessy, mgr,).— There Is « 
comedian with the "Tiger Lillles" this week who 
prehatily does n >t realize the fact that the success 
of the two burlesques, "A Temporary JIusband" 
and "The (icMldess of the Moon," are In a large 
n.easure attributed to his ability. He is Oeorge 
I*. Mnrnhy, with a Dutch dialect that is abso- 
lutely fegltlmate and unique In style and con- 
ception. He is the prominent figure throughout 
and played Ms part in an intelligent and thor- 
oughly perfect manner, every move and gt'sture 
creating laughter. There are other capable people 
in the company and they also do not depend en- 
tirely on the weak and otherwise irksome frag- 
meuH of the melancholy elements furnished In 
p!ace of at least nn«<l«'rn material for them tt> 
develop. If the dialogue were not prop«>rly han- 
dled and the oomedlans' own l>uslnesn left out, 
the perfornnnce would be shrouded with gloom. 
As It was. Sunday night the audience laughed 
spontsneonsly and enjoyed the succession of not 
too liolsterous situations and healthy comedy de- 
void of any luggestlvencss, although the gallery 
craved for vulgaritj at timet. A ludicrous Ger- 



man singing sptcialty called "Bbane House Oar. 
den" proved mlrlli-proroklng. Beatrice Uarlowe 
' U a prepossessing young woman and her fine 
gown was observed attcntivelj bj the audience. 
Jeanette Sherwood Is a "beauty," has superb 
figure and her presence adorned the stage. She 
has a fahlj good voice; her high notes are better 
than the low ones and used less. The costuming 
represents good taste without display of sumptuous- 
ness. Every change Is distinctive and particularly 
the Mexican costumes attracted attention. The 
chorus is vigorous and shows unusual traintug lu 
the ensembles. There are some good-looking girls 
in the bevy and more than half can sing ami 
know how to smile pleasantly. May Belmont 
o|)ens the olio. She displays vivacity and face 
contortions in a popular song and do<'S some 
"strenuous" dancing. LaV'elle and Grant give an 
exhibition of muscular strength and hand balanc- 
ing, the feats dexterously accomplished with grace 
and appaient ease. Murphy, Harlow and Barrett 
have a comedy sketch entitled "All on Account of 
Pinky," having a dog as the foundation for amus- 
ing situations. The act would serve better in 
vandeville. Corbly and Burke are good dan<>ers 
and they have some good talk. One of the team 
Is a comedian and he should stick to that voeu- 
tion. 

TROCADEBO (I. M. Welugarden, mgr.).— "The 
Rot.e Hill Foily" company moved over from Eu- 
Hon's North Side Theatre. The show remains un- 
changed materially, except that it runs bmoother 
than last week. 



^.■^, _ ., .__ PITTBBVBO, PA. . 

"By JAB. T. TYNDALL;*^" 

VARIETY'S IMttsburg OflJce. 
3HJ9 4th Ave.. Room 207. 

GRAND (Harry Davis, mgr.).- Ned Nye with 
voice and mannerisms following thone of the late 
Dan Daly with the Reid Sisters and his Rollick- 
ing Girls has an excellent act, W. C. Kelly 
with his imitation of a Court in Virginia la eas- 
ily the moot popular feature of the hilt and to 
ills act since presented here earlier in the sea- 
son he has added a clever imitation of an Eng- 
lish sailor and a to«igh t»uek and wing dancer. 
"Menetekel," an act of mystery presented by 
Max Konorah, is new here. Tlie Four Nightons 
in acrobatic feats of strength and posturing per- 
form marvellous tests of strength with ease. 
Julia Klngsley and Nelson I.«wls present their 
laughable skit "After the Honeymoon." It has 
)»een somewhat broadened and strengthened since 
last seen here. George W. Cooper and William 
Robinson have a clever turn in "The Dago and 
the Coon." Francklyn and Eva W. Wallace are 
pleasing in "A Case of Champagne." Mr. Wal- 
lace has one of the finest voices heard here this 
season. Fred Ray and company are as scream- 
li.gly funny as ever In the Shakespearean bur- 
lesque. Ed F. Reynard has amplified and greatly 
improve<l his ventriloquial act and it goes splen- 
didly. Quigg, Markey and Nlckerson are good In 
tlieir musical act and their comedy is well 
thought out. Will Mead's collie "Sparkle" is 
the cleverest animal seen here this season. 
Amos was excellent in comedy Juggling. 

GAYETY (Jas. B. Orr, mgr.).— The Behman 
show, Frank Bryan's Congress of American 
(iirls, is showing one of tlie best offerings of rh<> 
present season. Frank Bryan's protean work and 
his "Human Flags" apparently are as popular as 
ever. 

ACADF:MY (H. W. Williams. Jr., mgr.).— Tlie 
patrons of the Academy evince their approval of 
tlie excellent fun and music by Dave Marion, pro- 
vided this week by the American Burlesquers. 

NOTE. — One of the largest rolling skating 
rinks in the worhl will l>e opene<l here In Ex- 
|M)sitlon Hall by tiie managers of the permanent 
eximsltlon soon, as the Damrosch concerts are 
over and the auditorium can be made ready. 



PHILADELPHIA. 
By GEORGE X. YOUNO (Xinkt). 
KEITH'S (H. T. Jordan, mgr. Monday reliear- 
sal 0::}0>.— As a mechanical ni»velty "Starlight." 
the electrical ballet presented liy the M. Hardnln 
eoiTipany. is all of the big feature claimed for It. 
Nothing like It has ever been shown here In vaude- 
ville b»'fore and It is too elaborate to fear of its 
l>elns "lifted " It made .i stnng impression with 
the audience. NelU<> Bean»n<mt ar!»e:ired for the 
tirst time In a sketch called "Lizzie's Christmas 
Day," in whieh she was assisted by F^dvthe 
ClitboiiH and Nat Knlb. Just what Franklin 
Winter, the proprrtnuied autlf.r, was driving at 
when he arranged the act will never be discovered 
In Its piestnt form, 'or there 8»'ems to l»e no 
eonneetlon betwiH-n either end or the middle. 
Miss Beuuraont makes her entrance a« a threat re 
serubwoniitn attired in a costume that any neat 
housewife might envy and wearing sho4'8 with 
French h»»olH. This in Itself is a burlesque which 
is pn>bably not appreciated by either the star or 
the .luthor, Tl.e lullal-y 'ty Miss Beaumont was 
cai.ably sung but It wa«< badly placed and the 
lntr<Mlii<-tion cf most of the iMishn ss by Miss (Jlb- 
iM.ns and Nat Kalb, a)'>ng with the finish of the 
a<t, wa«! as p«'vfert a Ju'iible .ts can iM»sis|bly be 
Imagined. Miss IVauinoiit made a pn-tiy stage 
picture, sniie well and h.-r s)'piMirt did the l>est 
tl.»-y could with the material at baud. What Is 
needed is a new sketch, as the present one Is 
Impossible. Diiphlno and Drlniora. a rarlslan 
« h'wn musical set, was shown for the first time 
here. The music Is hardly fair and the romedv 
Is the same an that wilh wbieh the Fonti BonI 
Brothers pleased the childish views of the writer 
nuiny years ago. Harry Gllfoil In his "Barun 
Sands" intpersonalion repeated the sue«'ess met 
with on a former visit. James H. Culb-n and 
Friink Bush divided honors in their resjiectlve 
offerings, the former receiving sevi ral encores f<»r 
his songs, while Bush had some new .Htorles and 
n told some eld ones. Lily .^Seville pleased in 
her character songs. She closed with a rldlnc 
song, which was poor and should be dropjied at 
once. After Conn end Cournd g»-t through some 
weak comedy as "Noisy Burglars" they tlld some 
I retty fair work on n t»ole balaiut'd on a trapeze. 
Emerson and Baldwin pleas'd wirli (he Juggling. 
The comedy half of the team giv.s a very go«Hl 
in Itation of "Whitey" Fields *>lth.tut announring 
It as such. The Burkes opened the bill with a 
fair musical offering and were followed by Thomas 
Meegan and company in a sketch, "On the g. 



T.," which was of ordinary merit. Uedrlz and 
Prescott were well received in their dancing and 
singing act. "The Gems" and CllSe Berzac's 
ponies and mule were held over. 

TROCADERO (Fred. Wilson, mgr.).— The Em- 
pire Burlesquers presented "The Land of Sun- 
shine" and "Casey's Athletic Club" to the usual 
big business here. Both skits sre credited to 
Roger Imhof, but from the manner in which the 
first one is presented one might imagine It was 
written by some one against whom the company 
had a spite. EverylKxly appeared to be working 
under a pull, the chorus acting like a lot of auto- 
n:Hlons. In "Casey's A, C." things brightened 
nil and .ill hands began to shew some life. The 
shaving act in the first part is dirty and not funny 
and there is a carelehsness in dressing shown, 
(iladys .St. John makes a sprightly soubrette and 
dresses neatly in tM>th burles(iues. Miss Curinne 
is liandicapi>ed In appearance by a costume which 
hK.ks very ba<l from the fnmt. Wlieu they try 
the chorus sing well. Imhoff, Conn and Corrine 
<arry off the honors in the olio with tbelr always 
funny sketcli "Dr. Ii<iud»'r." The Four Leigh Sis- 
ters are attractive in appearance, clever workers 
and have a pleasing specialty called "Dutch Pas- 
tlnies." Tlie Four Miislteteers are altove the 
average as a quartet. (;iadys St John ap|)ears in 
a 8|>eeinlty with the "MiniiehaliH Maids." John- 
hon and Buckley and Martin and Crouch are also 
on the bill. 

CASINO (Ellas & Kcwnlg. mgrs.).— Fred Irwin's 
"Majesties" are l)ack again with practically the 
same show that scored such a big hit here last 
season. The stage effects, scenery and costumes 
look new and thet^ lii fhe^ same bunch of goo<l 
looking girls who know liow to do what is ex- 
pected of them. Larry McCale Is one of the real 
funny "tads" in the burlesque business, and he 
carries along ilie comedy in "Down the Line" and 
"For (Jirls Only" In entertaining fashien. Tiiere 
is plenty of good songs, well sung with Jeannette 
I.iiesford, (Jertle DeMlIt, clever Ho Wallace and 
olliers In front to top off the balance of the com- 
pany. Maude Harvey and Kvel.vn Walk.r and the 
Wiitsdn Sisters niike a pair of "sister acts" 
wlich are hard to |>eat. Fay and Butz have 
OmIt Gciiiian npciiaKy, whlcli !:; gi>od for many 
laughs. Axtell and Dahl n'placed Inza and I.<o- 
rella and scored with an entertaining act. 

BIJOU (William Jennings, ni^r.). — "Wine, Wo- 
man and .Song" is the title under which M. M. 
Tllese offer."! a show that is a cifdlt to the 
Western Wheel. It so far approaches the musical 
comedy element given in some of (he higher class 
houses as to siiKgest a foundation for ii«»me 
astute manager to l>nlld up a good business propo- 
slth)n on. The first part, "Going Into Vaude- 
ville," is really too tievcr a bit of work to en- 
gage the attention of the average patron of 
Iturlesque. the itn|N'rsoiiation of David Warfleld 
ity Alex Carr standing out in prouilnence. He 
v.as cleverly supported by Bonlla, Ktlui Hall, 
Nettle Clayton, Nellie Palmer, Mamie Walker. 
Allen Coogan and others. Carr's sketch, "The 
End of the World." was easily the best of the 
olio and with proper dressing and l)etter support 
tliiin is accorded by Allen C<K>^an and Mamie 
\^ alker It could be made a headline offering on 
the big vaudeville circuit. Bonlta, assisted by 
I er "picks" and a |H>ny ballet of gcsMl looking 
girls, won liberal recognition. Raymond and 
Clayton and tin* Comedy Quart<'t helped to fill 
out the bill. The closing burlesque, "Millinery 
Maids." was not so g«Kxl as the opener, 

LYCEIJ.M (J. G. .Ternion, mgr.).— With several 
chiniges in the cast "'llie (Jreater New York 
Stars" entertained (his week with "A Romantic 
•Marriage" and "The Swell Set In Tarls," In 
which Maryland Tyson carried off the honors. 
AssistiMl by a pony ballet she also appeared in 
the olio imd won favors. Ilagan and Westcott, 
Williams and Dawson, Bush Brothers, .\llen and 
Bright aiid the Busch-Devere Trio also app«'are(l 
In the olio, with Minerva Vano, who slipped 
hai'dcuffs and escaped from several kinds of 
prison jewelry, as a feature. 



CINCINNATI, 0. 

By HARRY HESS. 

VARIETY'S Cincinnati Olllce, 
i07 Bell Block. 

OI.Y.MI'IC (D. F. McCoy, mgr.).— The bill this 
week is mostly an all star aggregation, and as 
a result there has l»een a succession of faslii4ui- 
alde audiences. Tlte opening number, Dlericks 
Brothers, In feats of strength Is Interesting, 
the exhibition being clean cut, without resorting 
to spectat'ular tricks for aiM»lause. Frank Ciish- 
man, minstrel, has s«>me gissl stuff and lie made 
a hit with Ills diale(i. Byers and Hermann in 
pantomline were sen here for the first time and 
after resp Hiding to several encores found ll ditli- 
cult to break away from the a\idlence, so well 
was their act liked, Grace Cameron made her 
first hM'al vaudeville apiH-arainc and canted the 
house by storm, Robert Hllliard In "As a Man 
Sows." What Kbliard .Mansfield Is to the 
legKinnite. Mr. Ililiiard Is to vaudeville. ".\ 
Night in an Knglisli .Music liikll" has broken all 
records an<l Is tlie lirsl act (liat has ever play<'d 
two weeks In sinivssion in a linal vaudeville 
house. (Jilday and Fox, Hebrew partsly singers 
and comedians, well liked. IMward Blondell and 
c<»mpany in "A Ixst Bov" Is goo<i, but some of 
his comedy situations are weak. 

.ST.VNDAKD iCLarles B. Arnold, mgr.). — 
"Bon Tons." The opener intr'niuees (lie entire 
comiuiiiy In eight nujshal numbers. The show 
Is not HO well thought of as the "Dainty 
Duchess," which preceded It. but Is nevertheless 
a gcMsl show. Tlie burlesque 'The Girl from 
.Mars " Is very g^od. The <illo consists i»f; Young 
Brothers, acrobats, very gn(Ml: Browning and 
Bentley. Hebrew punMll-ts. excellent: Guy Raw- 
son and Fianc' s Clare In "Just Kids." pleasing; 
rierce and Opp. Genunn comedians, hit. Next 
week: "Vanity Fair." 

('(HJ'MBIA III .M. Zlcgler. mgr Sunday re- 
heari-al IO.'Km. — Noilinu' seems to disturb the 
fM'renlty of tlils well managed Iioii«;c and a tdll 
Is presented that aiqtenled with irresistible force 
and attracteil cap.icity bu>iness. There are ten 
acts, most of whi«h would be called 'iiead- 
llners" on other MIN. but the four real ones wer«« 
Hoiiditii. Tlie Millliiry Octette. G..<,rt:e K. Spfs.r's 
comjianr in "Tlie Ciirlstn.HS <;ift," an-i Caineroii 
and Flan.'igau lu "Ou and Off." lloudinl bus 







the whole city talking aliout bis marvelloos feats. 
The Military Octette went big. Charles Serra 
oi.ens the show satisfactorily. Marco Twins 
are good for laughs, Galettl's monkeys, good. 
George Wilson, minstrel, might be good if he 
cc ul«i nndersland that the audience only la supposed 
to laiigli at his Jokea. "The Christmas Gift," 
one of the iMiveities on the bill, has some new 
picture* Hinc«> it« dresw rehefirssl her* some time 
ago and has Its action quickened, but there is 
still that "something" lacking to make it a 
gcMHl novelty. Another la due to the fact that 
Charles J. Haines, who takes the part of "Billy 
.M(s»re, the welierweight champion," Is in the 
lieavywelght class. The remainder of the cast 
are capatde. Violet Dale, mimic, is making big 
hit. Ciinieron and Flanagan in "Off and On" are 
very funny. Next week: Tlie Orpheum Show. 

I'FOI'I-K'S (J. K. Fennessy, mgr,).— "Brigadier 
Burlesquers," a poor show, principally becanse 
(lie salary Is ex|»<'iide<l on the prixeflghting atar 
Batllng Nelson, who is the drawing card. 
W^iilfreund Sisters, singers, are good. Sisters 
Mulllnl, cornetlsts, were applauded. Lester and 
Mf»ore. C(miedy sketch, good. Sherman and Fuller, 
acrobats, fair. Next week: "The Jolly Oirls." 

BOSTON. MASS. 

ORPHKCM (I'ercy Williams, mgr.; Dave Rob- 
inson, res. mgr.). — Another record-breaking bill, 
liK linling .Mile. Dazle, "Ix» Domino Rouge." Bbe 
fully inalntniiied the reputation she has gained 
elsewhere for her artistic act. Harry Vokea 
with (he a-<slHtance of Margaret Daly Vokea 
gained a pronounced success In "A Flat Mlstake.'*- 
Will Murphy and Blanche Nichols in the laugh- 
able "From Zaza to I'ncle Tom." Pat Rooney 
and Marlon Bent, Woodward's Seals, a holdover, 
Greene and Werner, (irand Opera Trio, Joe Flynn, 
L.Mlia and Albino, and the Vitagraph showing the 
N'Kiiderbilt Cup Race make up the rest of the 
bill. 

IvIMTII'S (E. A. Albee, gen. mgr.).— One of the 
last shows this house hua offered for many a 
i:i<'on, (Jeorg? Evans being the bright particular 
s(ar; .Master Gabriel, the original "Buster," abl/ 
ashlstcd ly George All, who Is really the hit of 
the act; Morris Cronln, Wy lie's Dogs, World and 
Kingston, Exposition F'our, Lucy and Lucler, Tlie 
Mysterious Howards, Arlington Four, Belle Veola. 

I.YCEirM (George Batchelder, mgr.).— Charles 
Waldron's "Trocaderos," one of the best of Its 
l.lnd. Tl.e vaudeville part Is excellent and in 
chides Mr.e Taylor, Stlrk and Loudan, West and 
Williams, the Grahams and the Wilsons. 

HOWARD (O. E. Lothrop, mgr.).— The Gans- 
Ntison pictures filled the bouse to capacity. The 
rest of the | rogram was made up of the usual 
iK.ward burlesque and vaudeville acts. 

r.VL.ACI-: (Charles Waldron, mgr.),— Ilarry Brj- 
ant's "Innocent I^mbs." The burlesque is beau- 
tifully staged and costumed. The vaudeville Is 
all tliat could be asked for. BOUNDBB. 



ALLENTOWH, PA. 

ORPHEl'M (Sam .Myers, mgr.).— Week 15; 
'nioinas and Falne. good; Almont and Dumont, 
very gfsid; Bessie Wynn (New Acts); Tom Nawn 
and coinpanv, successful; Bowers, Walters and 
Crooker, evtremely funny; Collins and Brown, 
gooil; Chesler D'Amon, "Tlie Great White Mys- 
tery." a (lose rival of the Fays, In fact, more 
mysterious, as his work is done in full view of 
(lie audience, i'cature of the bill. MACK. 



BATTLE CREEK, MICH. 

lll.ior (W. S. Butterfleld. mgr. .Monday re- 
hearsal at l:4.'». Week 1.'): Swor and West- 
brook, g(MM]; Balatxing Stevens, fair; McKinnon 
and Reed, singers and dancers, goofl; Frances 
.•swart and coinpanv, melodramatic sketch "The 
Kiid." good; Florence Nelson, Illustrated srmgs, 
goo.1, N, RITCHIE. 




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VARtBTY 



Tit Clat. K. Harris GMrier 

Dtvoiid to th4 interests of Songs and Singers. 

Addrew All comDranlcatloBS to 

OHAft, S. HABBI9, 81 W. Slit St.. N. T. 

(Ifcjer Oohen, lifr.) 



Vol. 8. 



New York, Oct. 20, 1906. 



No. 10. 



▲• predicted tome time 
.mgo In this paper, Mis* 
Julia Mackey baa more 
I than fulfilled our as- 
• Mrtion, for if em a 
•enaatloD wat created 
It waa laat Mondaj 
evenlBf w b e n this 
great alnger came into 
her own by winning 
OTef the Hjrde A Beb- 
man audience with ber 
rendition of the ballad 
"Somewhere." The 
same Julia Macke7 aa 
.of yore with that 
beautiful, '^ melodious 
TOlee, ncTer aoonded 
better In all ber suc- 
cessful career than on 
this oeoastoo, and at 
the conclusion of ber 
■Inglng there was a 
thunderona clap of ap- 



plause that greeted 
ber efforta. Such art- 
ists as Julia llackej 
are needed la Taoda- 
Tille more than crer. 

Tbe Metropolia Quartet, 
composed of Wood. 
Ellis. Hamilton and 
McDonald, are creat- 
ing a singing furore 
at the Ck>lonial The- 
atre this week with 
"Somewhere." This 
quartet la a splendid 
addition to TaudeTllle 
and more than "aade 
good" in erery way. 

Miss Alta Yolo, tbe well- 
known contralto, is 
meeting with success 
-vlth her rendiUoo of 
"Dreaming. Lore, of 
You." and "Just One 
Word (tf OonaolatkB." 



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mgr.). — Nanek Shah, Hindoo necromancer, cleTer; 
The , McDonalds, society Hketcb, neat and well 
rendered; Uenry Flok, Hebrew impersonator, 
good; Tlie Mardo Trio, comedy acrobats, bit. 

DAVB A. LANDAU. 

BZEMIKOHAM. AUL 

THE MAJBbTiO (F. G. Parry, mgr.). Mr. and 
Mrs. Alfred Kelcey, good; Dollle Wells, fair; 
Four Mad-Oaps. bit; Charles Se«>gar, good; Wells 
Brothers, good; Tony Uyderii' niunkoys, good. 

NAT WILLIAMS. 



BUFFALO, V. T. 

SHEA'S (M. Shea, mgr. Monday rehearsal 10).— 
Week 10. an old-fasbioned bliea bill preaentlug: 
Maraella and Mlillay, comedy gymnasts, extra 
floe; Delay Dumont, aongs. took well; tbe best 
laugh maker of tbe season. "Tbe New Coachman," 
with Loola A. Simon. Urace Gardner and com- 
pany; Manhattan Oomedy Four, clever in comedy 
work; Ned Waybum'a "Bain Dears," novelty; 
James J. Morton told all about tbe acts on tbe 

bill; tlie Four Everetts, marvelous acrobats. 

OABDBN (M. Shea. mgr. Aiunday rebearsal 
10). — Featured were: Oooture and Uillette. bit; 
Morton,' Temple and Morton, clever; Fltzglbbons- 
McGoy Trio, excellent; Hungarian Boys' Baud, 
enjoyed; Bert Marshall, pleased; Tbe Lrfibackaus, 

funny acrobats. LA FAYErTTB (Cbas. Baggs, 

local mgr.). — Sam Devere's Own Company. A 
Urge chorus well costumed. Although not tbe 
best show of tbe season it had its redeeming 

features. Next week: "Miss New York Jr." 

LINN'S (Dr. Linn, mgr.).— Week 15: Tbe Sis- 
ters Millar, aingera and dancers, hit; Harry Beed 

baa a style of bis own aa a singer. TECK 

(John C. Peebles, acting mgr.).— Week 16: "Down 
the Pike" proved a merry frolic. Big business. 
Tbe Bays were as of old, good. Johnny Ray as 
Casey, the janitor, is immense. DICKSUN. 

BITBLINOTON. lA. 

'QABBICK (J. M. Boot, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 1:30).— Week IB: Oilllhan and Feriy. 
blackfaccd comedians, very clever; Conkey, com- 
efly Juggler, bit; Ames and Feathers, comedy 
aerotMta, good; Maud Delmar, comedleuue. laugh 
provoker; Ofaas. B. Hay. illustrated song singer, 
good. D. G. C. 

OLEYiXAin), OHIO. 

KEITH'S' (H. A. Daniels, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 11).— Lee Tung Foo, Cblneae baritone, 
amusing; Col. Gaston Bordeverry. ride sbooting, 
sensational; Hassan Ben All's Arabs, good; Lewis 
McCord and company in "Her Last Rehearsal," 
clever. Others on the bill were: Taylor Holmes, 
monologue and imitations, fair; Gertrude Mans- 
field and Caryl Wilbur, sketch, "61 Prospect 
Street"; Alleinel and bbi trained monkey 
amused the children; Mooney and Holbein, aing- 

log and dancing, fair. LYRIC (C. U. Peckbam, 

mgr. Monday rehearaal 11).— Trixle Frlganxa, 
hradliner, scored: Bert Levy, cartoonist, good. 
Banks, Breaieale and company; musical act, fair; 
Jos. J. Dowllng and company, sketch, "Lot's 
Wife." pleased. Others were: Malvern and 
iiiomas, singers and dancers; Miles and Bay- 
mond. aketcb. Master Cummhigs, songs, and 

Dacey. Chase and Adair. STAB (Drew A 

Campbell, mgrs. Monday rehearsal 11). — "The 

Merry Makers." EMPIRE (Cbas. W. Deus- 

h|fer, mgr. Monday rehearsal 11). — Phil Sher- 
tdan'B "New City Sporta." 

WALTER D. IIOIX}OMB. 



DAVYILLE, ILL. 

UNIQUE (G. R. Bachman, mgr.). — Hindoo Sam, 
magician, good; Bd Bailey, monologue, fair; 
Patchln Brothers, comedy acrobats, good; Bthel 
0. Watterman, aongs, fair; Lazar and Jjicar, 
Aualcal act, lilt. 



' DAVENPORT, lA. 

FAMILY (Wellington Martin, mgr. Klonday 
rebearmils 0:80). — Pope and his trick dog, good; 
Rossell and Held. sinKlng and dancing, gooil; 
The Be-AnoB, eccentric novelty duo, fair; 
Katbryn Martyn, illuKtrated Hongs, good; Al 
Coli-man, monologue, good; Mclntyre anti Bennett, 

blackface, hit. OBPIIEUM (OHcar Raphael, 

mgr. Rehearsal Monday 10). — Clark's dog and 
pony show; I^rktn and Burns, slnglnK and danc- 
ing; Waltrr McFarland and Hitters Dale, niuKlitg. 




dancing and Instrumeatallsts; Miuleal Eeeds. 
Tbe Two Hussars, Bawles and Veo Kaufman, 

blackface eomedian and aoubrette. BLITE 

(Cbas. Berkell, mgr. Monday rehearsal 11). — 
Hatch Brothers, musical art, good; Lena Kline, 
lllustrattHl songs, good; Bessie Taylor, coon aonga, 
bit; Four Dancing Harrises, bit; Three Bouuding 
Gordons, bit. Tbe strongest bill that was ever 
played at this bouse. LEE B. QRABBE. 



DEB MOINES, lA. 

KMPIRE (M. J. Karger. mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 11). — Week 15: Wbltebead and Grierson 
Sisters, singing and dancing act, good; La Fell 
Trio, excellent; the Three Kol)ers offer a startling 
trapeze act; Louia Bates was well received; Polly 
and Ethel Haxel. very clever, and James Hennes- 
sey deals in Jokes. NOTES.— Tbe Three Kobers 

St tbe Empire this week have Just closed a very 
sncceseful season with Orrin Bros.' Circus in 
Mexico. — Tbe theatre at Bristow, Iowa, waa com- 
pletely destroyed by fire Oct. 13. Tbe loss is 
estimated at about $3,000, with fl.OOO insurance. 
— Lew Dockstader and bis minstrels come to Fos- 
ter's Oct. 19. H. V. BBAVEB. 



DETBOIT, mOH. 

TEMPLE (J. H. Moore, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 11).— Week 15: Hart's "Crickets" make 
a tlrst class girl act. May Edouin and Fred Ekl- 
wards in "A Bachelor's Dream" are clever enter- 
tainers. Tlie Four Uarveys do a aensational 
wire act. Jack Wilson and company in black- 
face nonsense are tbe comedy hit of the bill. 
Amelia Summervllle pleases in her monologue. 
Seymour and Hill, comedy acrobats, were good. 
Fields and Wooley were well received, aud 
Detorelll and Glissanda, musical act, opened the 

bill. AVENUE (Drew A Campbell, mprs.).— 

"lUe Broadway Gaiety Girls." CRYSTAL 

(Jno. Nash. mgr. Monday rehearsal 10). — A 
good bill this week lucludea the Fuller Rose 
cempany in "Slick Dick," full of laughs: Grace 
Anierson, pleasing voice; Marrelle, a clever con- 
tortionist; Ausln Iscberbart, illustrated songs, 
and Holmes and Waldron, comedy musical act, 

made a bit. LIGHT GUARD ARMORY.— 

Mnie. Yvette Gullbert and Albert Chevalier 

were the attraction Mon'^ay, 15, and pleased. 

GAYETY (Harry H. Hedge, mgr.).— The "Jer- 
t>ey LllUes" company opened S'unday with "Tbe 
Phonograph Girla," first traverty, and "The 
Prince of Jersey." the last. 

LEO LESTER. 



DULTTTH, MINN. 

METROPOUTAN (W. U. Longstreet. mgr. 
Monday rehearsal 11). — Week 14: Wballen and 
MarteU's "Kentucky Bellea" in a fairly good 
show. Jack Reid is tbe principal funmaker and 

makes good. Tbe olio is good. BIJOU (Jos. 

Msitland. mgr. Monday rehearsal 2). — Week 
15, an excellent bill. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins in a 
little playlet entitled "Tbe Half Way House" were 
liked. Markey, banjo player, bit; Sam and Ida 
Keller iu a comedy sketch entitled "Si and 
Mandy," good; Kurtls and Busse and their 
trained toy terriers, good; Jack U'Toole, illus- 
trated songs, fine. HABRY. 



ELXHABT. IND. 

CRYSTAL (John Atnniors, gen. mgr.; Geo. 
Ix>wrle, res. mgr. Monday rehearaal 10). — Week 
15: Bobble Fields and Maude Mason, fair; Cole 
and Coleman, featured; Koppe, big bit; Lora 
MacGowan. C. A. B. 



EBIE. PA. 

MAJESTIC (Frank M. Clark, mgr.).— Week 15: 
Mattie Keene and company, beadllner in "Her 
First Divorce Case," very good. Gertie Beynolds 
and ber "Whlrly Twlrly Girls," extra attraction, 
good; Charles Kenna, "Tbe Fakir," excellent; 
mil and Sllvlany, unicyclists, above ordinary; 
Kaufman Sisters, satisfactory; Aglons and Me- 
lano, contortionists, good; Bunth and Rndd, bur- 
lesque magic, fine. L. T. BERLINER. 



EVAN8VILLE. IND. 

BIJOU (George B. Selllnger, mgr.).— Week 14: 
Murray K. Hill, beadllner, took well. Woods 
and Woods, wire, well received; Antrim and 
Peters kept the bouse in uproar with comedy; 
Rol)ert Nome, whistler, favorite; Lester and Qulnn 
drew applause; Flfi Dencb. well liked in songs 

and dances. PEOPLES' (Pedley A Burcb, 

mgrs.). — Borneo and Juliet, pleasing burlesque; 
Parish, ventriloquist, above tbe average; Byan 
and Smith, popular; Nicholas and Smith, cy- 
clists, good; Sanders, Dean and Sanders, good. 

BOBEBT L. ODELL. 



FINDLAT, O.- 
MARVIN (L. H. Cunningham, mgr.).— Week 
15: Wells and Sells, acrobats, met M'lth favor; 
Williams and Mayer, comedians, average; Hender- 
son and Ross, good; Mabel Cassidy. singer. 

fair. GRAND' (Harry H. Lamont, mgr.).— 

Leonxo, Juggler; Williaroa and Pullman, com- 
edians; Toney West, dancer. b'AM. 

FORT WATNE, IND. 

TEMPLE (F. B. Stouder, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10). — ^The Aldeana were tbe best; Mr. 
and Mrs. Gottlnh and company, well received; 
Herbert and Willing, excellent; Louise Adama, 
good; Tbe Marvellous Roode, fair. 

D. D. HAMMOND. 



FT. WORTH, TEX. 

MAJESTIC (S. S. Harris, res. mgr.).— Week 8: 
Opening of season. Al Leonhardt. Juggling come- 
dian, well received; Phyllis Allen, many en- 
corea for singing: Fox and Foxle, convulsed audi- 
ence; Master Sinter, singer and monologue, 
pleaned, as did Jan. Callahan and Jennie St. 
George in "The Old Nelghborhoo<l"; tbe virtue 
of this act being Miss S't. George's harp play- 
ing. The Four Emperors of Music were highly 

received. NOTE. — At the last minute a change 

of management for tbe Mnjestio Tlieatre here was 
annonneed and S. 8. Harris, formerly treasurer, 
elevated to manager. TARRANT. 



OALE8BURO, ILL. 

OAIETV (J. II. Holmes, mgr.).— Week 8: 
Mills and liCwis, German comedians, good; Georgia 



Lewis, whistling and aloglpg, pleased; George 
Mundweller. Illustrated songs, excellent; Rector 
and Major. Mexican musical novelty, good; Bay- 
moud Teal, blackface, big bit; Sampson and 
Zaccho, exhibition of strength and weight lifting, 

hit. BIJOU (P. B. IHiyden. mgr.).— Half 

week 8: Louise Emrlok. singer, good; Bouchard 
and Orrin. club Juggling and globe rollers, bit; 
Frank Malloy. illustrated songs, good; W. P. 
Creswell ("Bicycle Bill), good; Carberry and 
Stanton, sketch, big bit. F. B. B. 



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GOSHEN, IND. 

IRWIN (John H. Ammons, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10).— Week 15: Llndley aud Bell, sing- 
ing, dancing and comedy, fair. Fairy Plumb, 
Houbrette, good; Leon and Aldlne, Jugglers, excel- 
lent. Cuming: Cole aud Coleman, Koppe and 
Fields and Mason. W. F. VBICK. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. "* ' 

GRAND OPERA HOUSE (L. Newcomb, rea. 
mgr.). — Week 15: Tbe Great Francelias are tbe 
beadlinera this week. They offer a sensational 
heavy iMilanclng and Juggling act. Redwood and 
Harvey, the Musical Hussars, have a fair musical 
act; Rob*Tt Whlttler and company presented the 
one-act sketch 'Tangled Relations." it could be 
Improved somewhat. The Bell Boya' Trio are good 
singers and dancers. Guy Johnson, song illustra- 
tor, has Improved since be started bis engagement 
lure. Carlton aud Terre pleased with their sing- 
ing. The added attraction was Hiekey and Nei- 
win, who pleased everybody. C. U. HALLMAN. 



GREEN BAT. WIS. 

BIJOU (F. Williams, mgr.).— Week 14: Billy 
Durant, Chinese musical act, clever and amusing; 
Josephine Flold. lmi>er sons tor, fair; Harrison and 
Beauregard, good; Frank Williams, illustrated 
Hong; Klngsburrys, musical act, entertaining. 

A. B. BODENHEIMEB. 



HAZLETON. PA. 

FAMILY (Harry Hersker, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10).- Week 15: Bldora and Norrlne, bal- 
ancing and Juggling, good; T. H. Matthews. 
IDuhtrated songs, good; Garnella and company, 
sketch, fair; Ah Ling Foo, Juggling, very good; 
Jeome and Ellsworth, musical act, good; C. Nel- 
son and Camp, sceuic and electric production, 
entitled "Doomaday" (New Acta), very jrood. 

G. W. K. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 

GBAND OPERA HOUSE (Sbafer Zlegler. 
mgr.). — The bill was in need of a strong bead- 
llner. llie Dlnus Troupe of eight dancing girls 
hardly answered the purpose. The Dlnus frau- 
lelns, dance gracefully, but that's about all that 
can be said In their favor. The bit of tbe bill 
was scored by Gardner and Revere, little Dick 
Gardner more than making good. Tbe other 
contributors to the bill were the Musical Avolos, 
xylophonists, in a splendid little concert; the 
Dillon Brothers in their funny parodies; Blmm, 
liomm, Brrr, novelty musicians; Llna Pantzer. 
the iMunding artist; Jimmy Lucas, singer aud 
lm[>ersonator, and tbe Majestic Trio, colored 
singers and dancers. The Grand will have the 

Fays as its beadllner next week. EMPIBE 

(Cbas. Zimmerman, mgr.). — Tom Miner's "Bo- 
hemian Burlesquers," with Joe Cans, the colored 
pugilistic champion, as an added attraction, held 
tbe boards here for the week, giving as good a 
show as tbe Empire has bad this season so far. 

LOUIS WESLYN. 



JACKSON, MICH. 

BIJOU (B, J. Cox, mgr.).— Week 15: Eddie 
Suwyer, gymnast, good; Orvllle Pitcher, mono- 
logue, entertaining; M. L. Barrett, songs, pleased; 
Claudius and Scarlet, banjoists, and West and 
Benton, comedy dancers, excellent numbers. 

B. A. WBBNER. 



JERSEY CITY, N. J. 

BON-TON (T. W. Dinkins, mgr.).- Week 15: 
"(Colonial Belles." Good show and olio. Next 
week: "l^e Thoroughbreds." PETE. 



JOLIET. ILL. 

GRAND (L. M. Goldberg, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 2). — Week 15: Oreo, illusion act. pleasi'd; 
Earl and Wilson brought laughter; Lydell and 
Butterwortb won many plaudits; Richards, tbe 
upside-down dancer, has clever act. Others are 
Rensbaw and Earlin. musical turn. Short and 
Shorty, and Charles Crossman. 

A. J. STEVENS. 



KANSAS CITT, MO. 

ORPHEUM (Martin Beck. gen. mgr.).— Week 
14: Mile. Therese Rens's stallions, good; The 
Three Hlckmans, funny; Vernon, the rentrllo- 
quist. versatile; May Boley with ber "Polly 
Girls," bit; Lee White sings well; tbe Reiff 
Brothers wear good clothes and dance; Wilson 

Brothers tell Jokes pleasingly. MAJESTIC (E. 

G. Davidson, mgr.). — Bose Sydell's "London 
Belles." They gave a two-act piece which 
pleased. Olio fair. Week 21: "Bachelor's 

Club," CENTUBY (Joseph B. Donegan, 

mgr.). — "Tbe Cherry Blossoms." Tbe two bur- 
lettas are pleasing. Olio fair. Week 21: 
"Dreamland Burlesquers." FAIRPLAY. 



LONDON, CAN. 

BENNETT'S (Geo. F. Drlscoll. res. mgr.).— 
Marseilles, contortionist, clever; The Holdsworths, 
singing and dancing, hit; Bean and Hamilton, 
barrel Jumpers, good, but a little comedy would 
help some; Chalk Saunders was liked; Mr. and 
Mrs. Sydney Drew, scored heavily; Jean Ardelle 
and "picks," much applause; Doblado's trained 
sheep, good; John Mclaughlin, illustrated soligs. 

LTNN. MASS. 

AUDITORIUM (Harry Katjte, mgr. Monday 
rehearaal 10). — Week 15: Emmet Devov and 
rcmpany, "The Saintly Mr. Billings," easily the 
topllner; White and Simmons, minstrel com- 
edians, scored; James F. MacDonald, singing 
comedians, strong hit; Max Witt's "Six Sopho- 
mores and a Freshman," pleased; Harnalo and 
DIae, vocalists, fair; Eddie Mack, dancer, good; 
Mr. and Mrs. William Barry opened with a 



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singing and dancing sketch. NOTE. — A store 

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and Illustrated song theatre, directly opposite 
the Auditorium. DAVE CHASE. 



MARION. IND. 

CRYSTAL (J. II. Ammons, prop. Rehearsal 
10). — Week «: Tbe Gerdlugs. fresh from tbe 
far West. Mr. Gerdlng is little short of phe- 
nomenal as a trick piano player, and bis wife is 
an exceptionally good dancer and singer. Roy 
Freeman's goats, bit; tbe LIpplncotts, dancers 
and slugera, and Ruth Smith, illustrated songs, 

ct.mplete program. GRAND (H. G. Sommers, 

iehsee. Rehearsal 10). — Leonard and Louie, bal- 
ancers, good; Antrim and Peters, comedy musical 
sketch, good; W. H. Schooley, Tj-rie Dencb. 
singer, and Edna Lyman, Illustrated songs, round 
out a good program. L. O. WETZEL. 

MEMPHIS, TENN. 

GRAND OPERA HOUSE (A. B. Morrison, 
mgr.). — Week 7: Kaufman Family, bicyclists, 
clever, well received; Tyce and Jermon. did not 
appeal; Joe Garca. hand tudancer. decidedly 
original; Augusta Close, ordinary, but Miss Glove 
displayed good tSHte in dressing. With better 
material she would make an artistic success 
suited to high class audiences. Hanson and Nel- 
son, German comediana, caught tbe bouse; Max 
Mllllan. violinist, pronounced success, bowlug 
very good and interpolations decidedly artistic. 

QBBTBUDB GROOMES. 



MEMPHIS. TENN. 

GRAND OPERA HOUSB (A. B. Morrison, 
mgr.). — Spadonl. enthusiastically received; Paul 
Barnes, good; Quaker City Quartet, ordinary 
8S an organization; John Hcaly mak«.'S a hit with 
negro songs; Mannings, entertainers, well received; 
Alice Lewis, gave satisfaction; The Rosaires, 
wire walkers, pleased; Willa Holt Wakefield, 
artistic. 



MILWAITKEE, WIS. 

STAR (F. Trottraann. mgr.).— Week 14: "Tbe 
High School Girls." Two good burlesques. Olio 

is alwve tbe average. GRAND (W. J. Gregg, 

mgr.). — Have tbe beat show of tbe season. Geo. 
Ainistrong, monologue, fine; Klein and Klein, 
comedy Jugglers, excellent; Nellie McClure, char- 
acter artist, good; Great Albini. magician, fine. 

CRYSTAL (F. Winter, mgr.).— Leonard and 

Louie, gymnasts, good; Grace Armond, come- 
dienne, average; Rose and Severns in sketch 
take well; Dancing Howards, good; George Fredo 
and Harry Dare, musical comedians, very goo<l. 

B. U. BENDER. 



MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 

ORPHEUM (Martin Beck. gen. mgr. Sunday 
moniing rehearsal 10:30). — Edith Helena at bead 
of bill, big success; Bellman and Moore go big. 
although following Kelly and Kent In much the 
same style of material; Mayme Remington an<l 
"picks," scored; Lucanla Trio close show with 
pretty band balancing; (barter and Bluford open 
show with fair singing and dancing. * 

CHAPIN. 



MONTREAL, CAN. 

THEATRE ROYAL (II. C. Egerton, mgr. Mon- 
day rehcirsal 10). — "The Innocent Maids" present 
clever entertainment. The comedy In the bur- 
les4]ue is cared for by tbe Field Brothers. Jack 
llorton and Mile. Latroska present tbe bumad 
♦loll and show a pretty specialty. Three Clark 
Sisters in singing made good. Hughes and Haxel- 
ton. the Two Seyous and Dorothy Collins ore 
favorites. AL M. PRENTISS. 



MVNOIE, DTD. 

STAR.— Week 15: Patchen and Clifton In a 
comedy acrobatic sketch were fair; J. Henkel. 
head dancer, received applause; Gaylor and (JrafT 
in a sparkling comedy, were good; Frank Gray. 
llluHtrated songs, good; Howland and RoIIIhoii. 
musical grotesques, fine. OEK). FIFEIl. 

NEWARK. N. J. 

PROCTOR'S (R. C. Stewart, mgr. Monday re 
hearaal 9).— Catherine Hayes and Sal>el Johns4»n. 
lauKhahle: Entelle Wordette and Jules Kussell. 



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Three Donala, expert aor<A>at8; Besnab and Miller, 
K(M)d; Little Johnny Jobnti. very good in black- 

fat-e; Alexia and Schall. WALDMANN'S 

Ol'KRA HOUSE (W. 8. Clark, mgr.).— Benta- 

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NEW BEDFORD. MASS. 

IIATHAWAY'S (T. B. Baylies, mgr.)— Lasky 
A Holfe'a "Black HuBa«ra,"ex«-ellent colored muidcal 
act; Cook ami Clinton, female sharpshooters, fairly 
interesting; llallen and Ilayea, beat eccentric danc- 
ing seen here; Bartb Brothers and Walton, gooil 
comedy acrobatics; Black and Elliott, rather dull 
opening nketoti; Patsy Doyle, Jokes, mostly age(\. 
Mudge Fox, "tbe Flip-Flap Lady," popular num 
ber. KNOT. 



NEW HAVEN. CONN. 
POLIS (S. Z. Poll, prop.: P. J. Windisch. 
res. mgr. Rehearsals 10).— Week 15: Bert Les- 
lie, assisted by Mae Sailor. Burrell Barbaretta 
and Will Cole in "Hogan's Visit." exceedingly 
Ifuniv and generously encored; Tbe Kinsotis 
made a great bit In their musical specialty "Going 
It Blind," entbuaiaatic encores; Daisy Harconrt 
In cockney and English aonga and sayinga, en- 
tertaining; the same Joe Welch in Hebrew dia- 
lect, original and funny; May Orletta and Fred 
Taylor in a singing specialty were enjoyed; Tay- 
lor's ainglng was especially fine; Crawford and 
Ford, good; Krlesel's dogs, cata and monkeys, 
usual exhibition. B. J. TODD. 



NEW 0BLEAN8. LA. 
ORPHEUM (Martin Bock, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 1).— Week 15: Basque Quartet, line; 
Kemps Tales, artistic novlty; Camllle Trio, bar 
I>erforraer8, hit; Max Mllllan. Tiolinlst. excellenl; 
Wilfred Clark and comi>any in "What Will H^p 
pen Next?" clever; Augusta Glose, planologue. 

Kcored; Kaufmann Troupe. cyclHts. excellent. 

GREEN WALL (Henry Greenwall, mgr.).— Week 





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14: Herbert Mack's "World Beaters," pre«enliiig 
"Caught at Last" and "The Inle of Ru»>b«r- 
necks." The main strength of the perforniaiico 
lies In the olio, as the burlesques merely con- 
sume time. Next week: "Dainty Duchess.". 

NOTES.— William Specbt, conductor of tbe Green- 
wall orchestra, will be married abortly to Anita 
Sooola. Brooke Winter Garden opona Nov. 1 — 
Alliert Chevalier and Yvette (luUbert give two 
performance8 at the French Opera Hoiue 20. — 
I'ytbian Conventloo has caused increased business 
at the various theatres. —Now St. Charles Skating 
Rink opened to an enormous crowd 8. — Jal Alal 
Skating Rink was dcHtroved by cyclone. — Hie 
lease and bulldlngH of Athletic Park will be 
offered for sale 2'2, without limit or reserre. 
The park was put up. some monthM ago. with 
a stipulated price.— Leoncavallo, the Italian 
pianist, is booked for two recitals at tbe French 
Opera lIoii<i«>, Nov. 18 19. Henry RusHell has ar- 
rived in thlH city accouipanie<l by Alh'e Nielsen. 

O. M. SAMUEL. 



PAWTUCKET, R. I. 

CAPRONS (J. W. Capron. mgr.).— De Wolf 
Sisters sing well; The Flynus catch on; J. W. 
Harrington, mimic, very goo<l; The De Barr 
Trio, well liked. NICK. 



PIQUA. 0. 

BIJOU (Mccarty & Ward, ragrs. Monday re- 
hearsal 10:30). — Week 15: The Lawrences, com- 
edy bicyclists, very gtKMl. a bit; The Great 
Christopher, magic, old tricks, well handled; 
Francis Chenault, Illustrated songs, well re- 
ceived; Jolly Ed Jones, "All Out." iteat act. well 
rendered:- J. T. Powers and wife, comedy sketch, 
ftilr; Dodd and i^ifort, comic acrobats, good. 

SAM R. HIXSON. 

P0U6HXEEP8IE. N. T. 

FAMILY (B. B. Sweet, res. mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10:30). — Elwood and company, sensational 
comedy manipulators and illoalonary artists, hit. 
A refined act well staged. Al Edwards, tbe 
musical moke, another bit. Prank Richards and 
company, "Tbe Daffy Athletes," good material 
for a flrst-class act. Tliere l« room for Improve-, 
nient. Bowman Brothers, comedians, need re- 
hearsing; BeHsle Greenwood, prima donna, good: 
Oummlngham and Smith in '*The Shoplifter," 
very good. The acrobatic feats of this act are 
worthy of mention. W. C. MATTEJIN. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
KEITH'S (Chas. I»venberg. res. mgr.). — The 
bill Is headed by Rtlward Davis in a very in- 
teresting one-act tragedy entitled "The Unmask- 
ing," making a big bit. The Uesaems. Tery 
clever; The Empire Comedy Four, fairly enter- 
taining; Josephine GasHman and company, pleased 
through the assistance of her clever picks; Milt 
Wood, one of the liest shoe dancers ever seen 
In this city; Juliet Winston, singing comedleime. 
had to respond to numerous encores. Others on 
the bill were: Franco Piper, good; Elmer Ten- 
ley. fair; Misses Ramsdell. amateurs, ordinary. 

and the Hurleys. IMPERIAL.- Watson's 

"Orientals" hold the boards this week. The 
Vamamato Jups are tbe only g«KKl numl»er on tbe 

bill. WE8T.MINSTBR ((^ B. Batchelor. 

mgr.). — "The Boston Belles," an all around good 
show. H. M. S. 



RACINE. WIS. 

BIJOU (Wm. C. Tiede. mgr. Monday and 
Thursday rehearsal 9:n0i. — Bill for week 11 in 
chided the following: l.a vender. Richardson and 
rompany, comedy sketch, featiire; Qnlnn Trio, 
••oniedy singers and dancers, fair: Ginter and (Jil- 
more. musical, good; the Great Anstlns, tam- 
bourine spinners, good: Joe titsxlwln, monologue 
t-omedlan. bit: .Mouland and Leigh, comedians, 
verv g4M)d; Gehle Trio, inush-al and song and 
dunce, ttnr. WM. J. MclLRATH. 



READINO, PA. 

ORPHEUM (Frank V. Hill, mgr.).- Week 15: 
Allies and Nitrsm open the show, below average - 
D<' Veaux and Ue V»'anx. miisbal duo. pleaaed: 
Henry Cllve. slelgbt-of-hand, do«>s nothing new. 
but has :i good appearance and seemed to please; 
Cliarlotte Parry and company In a new protean 



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BIJOU (Brownell A Updegraff, mgrs.).— 15-17. 
"Bowery Burlesquers" opened well, but business 
dropped after M<mday. 18 20. "The Lid Lifters." 
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SAOINAW, MICH. 

JEFFERS' (Cl|M%r Sargent, res, mgr. Sunday 
niorning rehearsar' 10). — Weelt 14: One of tbe 
t^8t bills that has been presented this season by 
Al H. Weston and company, dVl very well. Henri 
French, very cle\er. His imi)er8onations of vari- 
ous composers and musical directors pleaseiT Rose 
and Ellis did a novel barrel Jumping act. "Mu- 
Hbal Hearts" had a retined musical specialty. 
Marlon and Dei«ne have an original comedy act. 
tine. Cecilia Weston did well. Will Dockruy 
closed the bill. Hla Jokes were good. NENNO. 

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 

ORUHEUM (W. L. Jennings, res. mgr. Sun- 
day rehearsal 4). — Week 7: Ben Welch leads 
with clever Hebrew and Italian chararcterH; Two 
Vivians pleased well; Collins and Hart, good; 
Oonsales Bros., good; Max Illldebrandt. tbe 
"crasy band leader," pleased; Johnstone and 

<'ooke, quite a hit. BON TON (J. H. Young. 

mgr. Sunday rehearsal 10). — Week 7: Uhroso. 
puiiUng; La Toeca, good comedy Juggling; Ed 
Simpson, monologue; At>bott. Illustrated songs, 
Ed Mack, song and monologue. 

JAY E. JOHN.SON. 



BAN ANTONIO, TEX. 

M.\JHfSTiC (T. W. Mullaly, mgr. Sundiiy re- 
hearsal 9:.'W)).— We«>k 14: Keeb>y Sisters and 
Arthur Stuart, singers and dancers, pleased; Ed 
La Vine, "the lone soldier," one continued laugh; 
Fanny Frankel. prima donna, good; Walter Wash- 
bum and company, presenting ".\ Hundred to 
On«- .Shot," deliver the goods; Clemenso Brothers, 
musical and comedy acrobats, one of tbe l)est acts 
of its kind seen here; Allan Shaw, coin and Cfird 
ninnlpulator, fine; Sansone and Dellla In feats of 
strength, popular. CAL. CO'QBN. 

8HAM0XIN, PA. 

FAMILY (W. D. Nellds, mgr. Monday morn- 
ing rehearsal 10).— Bill IS, 16 and 17: Green 
Brothers, comedy Jugglers, very g«>od; Tlie Four 
Masons In "A Country Srhool," very good; Frank 
(\N>m))M and .Muriel Stone, musical act, ordinary; 
Delmore and Darrelle, fal.*; Eugene Ernniett. 
< omedy change artist, good; Tbe Three Dmlen, 
comedy acrottats, pleased. .MILLER. 

BPRINOFIELD, MASS. 
roLI'S (Gordon Wrlgbter. mgr. Momlay re- 
bearsiil 10).— Ned Wayburn's. "Tbe Futurity 
Winner" heads an attractive bill week of IB. 
The Four Fords, dancers, big bit; Columbia Four 
••omblne good com«Hly with excellent Hinging; 
Hugh Stanton and Florence Modena, have a 
clever satire entitled "For Reform"; Dan guin- 
lan and Keller Mack, ex-mlnstrels, hit; Delmore 

.Sisters, good; (iates and Nelson, pleased. 

NEIiSON (R. S. Roberts, mgr.).— The William 
Morris' vaudeville 8tar« here week of ITt have 
caused the S. R. O. sign to be hung dally. 
.\rthur ITInce beads the list. Tbe company In 
dudes Ida Renee, Hallan and Fuller. Stuart 
BarncM. tbe IU>yal Troii|»e of Japs. Mme. 
Knimy'H dng«. Froslnl and Tbe Majors (New 
Acts). F. MAC DONALD. 




scarcely welcomed upon appearing and often hlaaed 
on exit. It ia not believed that he la in any 
vay valuable to either the show or the box office. 
The performance is breeiy. girls attractive and ig 
without II doubt as good as any, atlU contains 

nothing new. At the GAIETY the same thing 

prevails. No attempt at anything different than 
before. Tbe "Night Owla" have ten of the best 
rounds of the flght betwt>en Gana and Nelaon. 
It seems to add considerable to tbe attendance, 
b< Hides arousing discussion — not. however, draw- 

li'K as did tbe Brltt and Nelson plcturea. 

( (rLir.MB I A. —Beatrice McKenzle. novel act en- 
llth>d "Tbe Cowboy and Indian," a wblmalcal bit 
from the West abounding In laaao throwing and 
dropping of «<m«lB, which make twenty minotes 
veil spent. The best of the show inclodea Swor 
Brf)therM; Wllla Holt Wakefleld, artistic aong 
readings; Knight Brothers and Sawtelle, dancera, 
who nre good; Carson and Wllllard In "Frissled 
Finance," tbe steal from Weber and Fields; the 
VuHsar <;irls are one of the strongest on the 
l>lll and especial firalse has been given to No- 
nette, who shows great promise. The new house 
here is Htlll In the minds of the promoter and 
has not as yet b«'en put on paper. Therefore any 
aniiouiiceiiicnt made is premature. (iEORGlK. 



ST. PAUL, MINN. 

ST.\U (J. C. Van Boo, mgr.).— DInklns' 
"Yankee Doo<lle Girlx" opened week's engage- 
ment on tbe fourteenth. Next week: "High 

School Clrls." NOTES." It Is certain that the 

New Orpbeum will open Its dtnirs to the pultllc 20, 
at which time manager J. F. Blntes will present 
to the St. raul public the following bill: Margaret 
Wycherly and company in the one-act protean 
drama. "In Self-defense"; Gus Edwards' "School 
Bovs and Girls." Albert Bellman ami Lottie 
Moore In "A Bit of Vaudeville." tbe SalvaggI 
Troupe of live European acrobatic dancers. Maynie 
Remington and her black Buster Brownler*. Ida 
O'Day. comedienne and banjolst, and Dixon 
Brother". niMMlcal grotesqueH. IfJO. 



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TOLEDO, 0. 

VALENTINE (Otto Kllves. uigr. Sunday re- 
bearxal KM.— The best Keith bill that baa yet 
reached Tidedo Is at tbe Valentine this week. 
The favorite is Sam Watson's Barnyard Circus. 
l>an Burke and his school girls make another 
p«»pular numl>er. O'Brien and Havel, Ray Cox. 
Hlg. Chefalo. Webb and Connelly, Barke and 
Dempeey and Folk, Collins and tbe Carmen SIs- 

t»rB. K.VilMRK (Abe Scbaplr... mgr.) - Thta 

Meek Fred Irwin's Big Show. 'iMiIh «bow la well 
up to the standard. — THE CRYSTAL (Ray Blcb- 
nuMid. mgr. ).--Tlie bill tbia week In easily the 
l>eHt that has ever tM>cri seen at the A.'nmon 
tioiirie. rreeuian's (ioH)x, gtMid; The LIpplncotts. 
• ery go<»d: Tlie (Jerdlir*;!* are clever, while Stanley 
and I^emy hsve a novel singlug nrt. Chaa. Oeh- 

ling, vo«'allsl, \Mi!4 al.Ho well applauded. 

N(»TE.- fjrnver Tocgarden. formerly at the 
Cryatsl in Mirlou, Ind., Im now treasurer at the 
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NOVFI.TY (S. R. Wella, mgr. Monday re- 
Learaal 1:30). — The DeLoyR, good In comedy play- 
kt; Mead and Wernti, noTelty; Wills and Barron, 
well received. LOUIS H. FRIED.MAN. 



TORORTO, CRT. 

SHEA'S (J. Sbea. mgr. Rehearsal 10).— George 
Puller Uolden received a warm welcome. Week 
of 15: The Meredith Sifters are popular too. 
They Hlng several catchy songs In costume. Willy 
Zlmmermann gave character Impersonations with 
u.nch success. Mile. NadJ<> Is a clever acrolmt 
and contortlonlat. Fast and furious was the 
fun made by the skit "A Night In RngllHh 
Vaudeville." A fine act was presented by May 




Hull nlso. STAR (F. W. Stair, mgr.).— "Mlaa 

New York Jr." wai the attraction week of 15. 

HARTLEY. 

TROY, R. Y. 

rnOCTOR'S (W. H. Graham, mgr. Monday 
rehearsal 10). — Edmond Day and company, sketch, 
"The Sheriff/' above the average and was well 
r<<t:lved; Sleed's Pantomime Company has a nov- 
elty entitled "The .Mysterious Hotel," which won 
approval; Lea Durand Trio, lingers, good. Others 
who appeared are: Lydia Dreams, ventriloquist: 
the R«)oney Sisters in a singing and dancing act; 
Dave l>ewls. character comedian; Mullln and Cor- 
rt'lli, two clever acrobats, and Ward Brothers. 
mug KUd dance artists. LYCEUM (R. H. Kel- 
ler, mgr.).— Wllllums' "Ideal" EztravagaoEa 
Company opened a half week'a engagement here 
to large houso. For the last half of the week 
"Paraslan Belles" are here. J. J. M. . 



WASHIROTOR. D. 0. 

CHASE'S (Wlnnifred De Witt, mgr. Monday 
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New acta rehearsed and whipped Into abape. 
Vaudeville acta, dancea, aketchea, etc., taught. 
1.000 ancceaaful puplla now on the atage. Send 
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THE REROWRED AMERICAR YERTRILOQIIIST 

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liyams and Mclntyre. amusing; Charley Case, 
pleasing; Bertbold'a Birds, clever; White and 
Stuart, good sketch; Mabelle Adams, TioUnlst, 

well received; PoAgo and Leo, good. NEW 

LYCEUM (Eugene Kernan. mgr.). — "Twentieth 
Century Maids." The abow la pleasing. Some 
good songs and twenty pretty glrla. Good olio. 

Tlie skating rink still continues to draw large 

crowd4 uightly. W. U. BOWMAN. 

WIRRIPEO. MAR. 

DOMINION (D. Doyle, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
10). — Major O'Laugblln, baton Juggling, good; 
Dudley, Cheslyn and Burns, comedy act, bit; the 
Brotbera Damm. acrobatics, score big; Jeanne 
Brooks, good; Mona. Herbert, big with musical 

dining table; Miller, the bandcnff king. good. 

BIJOU (Nash A Burrows, mgrs. Monday rehearsal 
8).— Frank Marckley, banjolat, good; LllUan Cllf- 



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ford, good; Tegg and Daniel, comedy, good; Oaf- 
fenay Brown, comedian, good; Mr. and Mrs. Per- 
kins FiHher, sketch, fair. 8. J. IIORTON. 



WORCESTER, MASS. 

POLl'S (J. C. Criddle. mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10).— Week 15: Zena Keife. singing 
••Cheyenne," scored a hit; Ferry Corwey. Euro- 
()ean musical clown, rery good; Latells. gym- 
nasts, fair; St. Onge BrotherM. comedy cycling, 
clever; Barrows-Lancaster company presented a 
rural comedy, "Tlianksgiving Day." In splendid 
style; SIdman and Shannon. "The Astrologer," 
tbiked slang and made laughs; Powell-Cottrell 

Troupe gare an excellent exhibition. PARK 

(Al P. Wilton, mgr. Monday rehearsal 10).— 
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The Biggest Laughing Success in Vaudeviiie > TIME BOOKED SOLID by WM. MORRIS 



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ONIY 




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ADDRESS METBOPOLE HOTEL. 



THE COUNTV F^AIR 

At Madison Square Garden, New York 

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iM VAUDEVILLE 

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THE AlCERICAN BEAUTY, 



BESSIE GILBERT 

looomparabl* Comet Soloist. 
. ;' :: Afonts, REICH. PLUNKETT ft WESLEY, 

St. Jaium Baildinr. Hew York City. 



^ ; TO THE; : .. 

VAUDEVILLE PROFESSION 



Owlns t» the nnjus*: comment and criticism I have been subjected to of late, I herewith 
place In print the foUowinic facta, all of which were embodied in a letter written by me 
to the White Rata of America under date of October 15, 1906: 

I have been accused of having stolen an original act from Kred Karno, namely: "A Night 
In an Engllah Mu9lc Hall." 

In Justice to mjRelf It has become neceasary to state the particulara loading up to th« 
presentation of that net by Mr. Karno. In September. 1903, George Lederor produced ut 
Hammersteln's Victoria Theatre the "Jersey Lily," with Blanche Ring as atar. The third 
act had a setting of a stago upon a stage; the Identical scene at present in Mr. Karno's act. 
The seTeral parts In the scene In the "Jersey Lily" were taken by Dave Don a drunken Dutch- 
man In the box; Wm. Cameron, stage manager; Louia Harrison, a mad Mexican; Billy Van, 
a comic singer; Harry Oerts, the boy in the box; George Kain, a French baron; Blanche Ring, 
•onbrette; Maude Raymond, ballad singer, and Rose Beaumont, a dancer. 

After a run of three weeks, the "Jersey Lily" closed. Shortly after that I left to fulfill 
an engagement at the Empire Theatre, liondon. During my few day?' racatlon, I happened 
to be at one of Karno's new pieces called "Sntiinlny to Monday." I asked him if I could 
hare the American rights. He replied if it went to America he would take It. I then said 
th»t when I returned I Intended produolng a novelty, describing the "Jersey Lily'a" third 
act. "Thafs funny," Karno answered. "I have had that idea for three years." 

I did not see Karoo until two weeka later, and at that time he was presenting th»» 
"Mumming Birds." the exact duplicate of what I had explained, excepting the title and a 
wrestler. I came bhck to America a few weeks later, and told Flammeratein and Morris I 
was going to give "Polite Vaudefllle," explaining the act. The only answer I received wsk 
that the English Idea of humor would not go over here, and to burlesque vaudeville would 
displease the managers. I became dlFconraped, although I went so far as to ask Mr. Lederer 
to sell me the setting used in his play. The prl e he asked was prohibitive. 

In the meantime Karno's act had made a big hit in England, and there were seyeral copies 
In Germany. Two years passed. 1 had to return to England for a ten months' engagement, 
and n. B.' Marinelli brought over as It is called, the Knrno act. Had I been In New York 
at the time. I wonld have made my own production, which to vrj way of thinking Is as much 
mine as Karno's. 

Theee are the true facte. After Inquiries. Mr. Albee told me to go ahead and produce the 
act, and they (Keith OtBce) would try to book it. I did so. and am pleased to say my act 
has met with success, and Is booked pretty solid. The opposition circuit Immediately spread 
the report that I stole the act from Karno. 

I do not blame my brother and sister artists for thinking badly of me, not knowing the 
circumstances. As proof of the above, I can say that any of the former members of the "Jersey 
Lllv" company may be questioned, and if a denial is made of any of ray statements relative 
to that piece, I will actnowlcdge myself a Fcoundrel of the worst sort. 

JEAN BEDINI. 

'^Jersey Lily** Produced September, 1903. 
Karno*s *' Mumming Birds** April, 1904. 

IN PREPARATIONS 

*«The Eleven J*s/* (Jugglers) Open Nov. 12. ** Woman and Co.*' 

^'Amateur Night.** All Original Producliona. 






LA CROIX 



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The Only Chinese Dialect 
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Can furnish the best 
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and LEO CARRILLO 



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Anybody can steal; it takes braiiie to oririnate. Week Oct. t9, Orpheum. Loi Aofeles. 

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Booked Solid Se«M>n 1906-07 By MYERS A KELLER, EzdiniTe Agents 





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oomr LOOK uo orcir 

BARTH BROS, and 




COMEDY GYMNASTS. 

This week, Hathiway's, New Bedford, Mass. Week Oot. 28, Sheedy's, Tall Rirer, Mass. 

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"A CHANGE OF BUSINESS" 

SEASON 1907-06. 
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THE DANCING 1¥ O N D E R S 



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The Most Novel Act in Vaudeville 

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ADDRESS UNTIL MARCH 1st 

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SALLY 



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in Vaudeville 



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"THE LIAR" By Ednnd Oiy MO "A VERY BAD BOY" By Irthir Umb 

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Bissett and Miller 

CHAS. TATLOE. MOE. 
Vaateit drecMd danoinff act before the public with "BALTIMOEE BEAUTIES" 



WILFRED CLARKE 

Assisted by MISS THCO CARCW and CO. 

Protonting Hit Skotchos 

NO MORE THOUBLE" tLiid "WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEX1 

MDOtirMB, Omrm LAmmB' OLVm, JVCHf YOtIK OITY 



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THE COMEDY AOEOBATIO VOTELTT. 



Mullen >"•> Corelli 



or EVMOEOUS PECVLIAEITIES. 

CORBLEY 



WEEK OCT. n, PEOCTOE'S. BEWAEK, V. J. 



AND 



CONLEY 



A soMiio prodaotioB. 



«<THE PIKEE Ain) THE 8P0ET" 

Week Bot. 29tli. Pastor's. N. Y. Gitv 



16 miantM la oa*. 



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WALTERS and PROUTY 

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Ptanlsts. Toeallata and compoaera. Playlny tw» pianos at one time. 



Star Attraction 
roues MARIGNY, PARIS 

t^ice: prolonged 

A LC liATIN— <*Tlic Biggest American Hit in Years." 

O. H. HARRIS, Monoger CD. liARKUM, Press Rep. 



ELTINQE 



WORK 



AND 



OOMEDT ACE0BAT8 



OWER 



OEPHETTM SHOW SEASON '06-'07. 



THE THREE COATES 



(IneladlB« "Llttla 0aBl«irer") 
XV "WAVTBD. AM SREANS BOT. 



THE T O T I T O S 



European NoToIty Aot. Now en tour. 



MIKE BERNARD 

Pianist at Pastor's Theatre 

Oaa aeoept otk«r MfafMiMta Cl«% wHk •■paalally. Hidiaw mf af FacUf^a TkMitrai 

DAVE FERGUSON 

LIOHT COMEDIAN WITH PENNESST'S "MIES NEW TOEK. JE." 
Season 1906*'07. MaaacMiMt L M. KEEK. 



FRANK 



CUSHMAN 

The World's Famous 20tli Century Minstrel 

For Open Time Addresi E. OEAV, Suite 9 and 10, 1868 BROADWAY 

BESSIE VALDARE'S 

TROUPE or CYCLISTS AND UNICYCLISTS 

Booked until 1908. Address oare United Booking Offloes, St James Building, New York City. 



ZINGARI TROUPE 



Bted hr ALEXANDER BITAN. 



Direetion ef OEOROE HOMANS. 



Bellclaire Bros 



MODERN HERCULES 



Introducing the most sensational two-man acrobatic feat 
ever accomplished. A twenty foot leap across the stage to 
a high hand-to-hand. Absolute originators and only ac- 
complishers of this marvellous feat. Season 1906-07 booked 
solid. 

Address E. F. CARRUTHERS, Western Vaudeville Amo., 
Chicago, or BELLCLAIRE BROS , tare Klein, 313 E. yad St., 
New. York. 



When answering advertiicmenit kindly mention Vabiett. 



VARXBTT 



RBPRB«BMTATIVB ARTISTS 



RBPRBSBMTATIVB ARTISTS 



ARTHUR 






DEAMATIO tOPmAirO. 




Louise Cogswell 

IBM WOMB. •# SXANL.BY A 1A/IL.SOIN 



M w. ttm IT., nw Touc uiti. 



MOBBZB XAVLET AMD DOLLT BTXaLIVO IN THEIR OBIO»AL FLATLET 

Kid Hickey^ 

OopTrifkied OUm 1. ZXO. Ve. Mil. 

DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS 

Clemenso Bros. 



ACBOBATIO OELOWVS. 



Tma 07 ACT, It 



AidrtM Ofti* TA&ISTT. 



YSTERIOUS 



Howard Brothers 

Th« Wwld's aokBOwl«dff«d theucht timnsmiuion and telepathio iM>nd«n. 

WMk Oct tS. »th At«. ThMti«. M. T. Oitj. | 

BOOKED SOLID mfTIL APBIL. 



rKATVRKD 1¥ITH "BOH TONS 



•• 



FRANCES CLARE 



WEEK OCT. ft, BIBMDIOKAM, ALA. 



Earlr and Bartlett 

THE VATTTBAL IBOIH COMEDIAV AHD THE BIMOnrO OOMZDIEVIfE. - — 

This week, Vortltj, Brooklyn. We«k Oot. tt, Moore's Theatre, Portland, Mo. 

ljCysbvICCE 



n>A OABLB. BopraMBiativo. 



THE GREAT CHEVALIER 



IVI 



B. K. 




YandorUle'e Loading Eatertainora witk tho Baajo. 



BVTK 1. 

AND "^ 

Per. addroMi. M Waaklactoa St.. MiddletowB, Ooaa. 




• • 



I^ITTLK BOT Jkfi 



I^ITTLB GIBI^ 



• • 



mE GARDNER AND REVERE ^i 



• • 



kii«nt address* oar« Varletjr 



m BBI^L BOT A 



THK BOVBBKTTK 



• • 



CKIoago Offices 79 8. ClarK Str««t 



Elinors Sisters 



In VAUDEVILLE 



Direotion GEO. HOMANS 



Mr. & Mrs. GENE HUGHES 



l>?;SUn!" "SUPPRESSING THE PRESS*' 

Mf wwrnt fim RKBr, aaw ttm car. 'FkiM iti»j ■iinnii 

TO THE ST. ONGE BROTHERS 

StandArd cycle act, that it full of merit; 

Tbe material their own, they don't take nor inherit. 

Original featti On the wheel they excel. 
Noteworthy it that, they do comedy at well 
Orotetque makeup, that doet not offend, 
Entirely worn by the comedy end. 

* Brifht, humorout monologue that sparklet with wit, 
Relatiye to cycling, the material doet fit 
On any bill, irretpective of place. 
Speed it their motto, they'll keep up the pace. 

Compliments off Palmer & Cilbert 

OBinr Biviv vanola 

WILLIAMS and MELBURN 



Abbie Carlton 

n LIVIBO ABT ITUDIU. 
AaaUted by tea moot boantifnl and ehapolj rirla. 

WATCH rOI NIIT ilASOM. SOMITUNG NBW AMI NOTBL IM STATUAIT 

"Waakington B ooiety Olrla," Boaaon 'Ot-'OT. 

M. S. BENTHAM Presents 

Nan En^eton and Co. 



Wee a blv bit witk tkeir new aot l&it week at Pastor' t. 



ADDBXtt ALL AGENTS. 



XaolndJaf BOBOV LBITDIOWZLL 

la 
"MOW TMB WIDOW WAB WOV.*' 



EOOBBTBIO OOMEDIAV. 



Chris Richards 

BIOOEET 8U00E88 OP ABT BVOUfK OOMBDIAV IB AMEBIOA. 



TKB BOOSBTBIO OOMEDT DUO 



ASHTON AND EARLE 

P BEIBH T IB O THKIB LAVOHDIG BOTBLTT 

"THE EDITOR OF FUDGE" 

CLABX OAUDT. TOTT ABE HOT MItTAXEV. 



The Banks-Breazeale duo 



The Dalaflest of Maslcsl Acts 



JMO. A. WEST 



l«3 W. 40th St., N. Y. City 



• • 



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;.;■>■;; BOOKED SOLID JVHE, 1907. . ." 

The BirmlDgbam Newe, Blrmlngbam, Ala., Tneediy. Oct. 0, 1906: "John A. West, the 'Muelcnl 
Brownie,' bad a norel turn that pleated the andience. In fact. West seemed to be the hit of th« 
erenlnff with the crowd.** 

When anmoering adv0rti99mmt$ kindhf mmttiam YAMDBrT, 



VAiktftYY 



•«■._■ ■ J, -• Am 



■iirihMMMi 



RBPRB«BINTATIVB AnTI«T« 



RBPRBSBMTATIVB ARTI«T« 




THE ONLY HEADLINER 
THAT HAS NEVER 
FAILED TO MAKE GOOD 



p. H. ^ITBILBK. M«»ag«r. •• K«M AT*tt«M,BVrrAI,0. M. T. 



t MMOM 



Chas. Robinson 



if Mlli 



LID ■• 



«*^^* 



* Braw't "OOLOVZAL 



I«VI#U 



THOMAS andPAYNE 



C*l*n4 Baycrt WM4«a Sh*« •■< l*U«r SKato Dmmms ■ 

ALBERT SUTHERLAND, St Jinw Btfldin^. W. Y. 

Bert Howard ft Loona Bland 

PEmMTIllO 

V - ■VTHE STAGE MANAGER** 



•M te 



OKABAOm lOVM AJn> WMllTJLDra. 



HELEN TRIX 



M 



A nr rmoM nFrxBAET. 



t» 



■m P*t OMior at Wa. 



ONK or TBS BOTS rROM BOMK 



23d YEAR 




^ 



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-;*« SHOW 

•^ 23d YEAR 



■ fc-^-V. 



MAM WZim fMI rVMMT HJDB.' 



Chas. J. Burkhardi 



itM.*vr. 



•t 



GERTIE REYNOLDS 



If 



TWIRLIE GIRLIES" 



DiraetlM M. TESrrumT 




HICKMAN BROS. 




FRANK 



FOGERTY 



•• 



FRED ^ZOBEDIE 



win preaeot a new act next 
Dlx««tlMM. S. SEMTHAM. 



written ctpedallj for them hf Mr. Wilfred OUrke. 

MOW OM THE OEPMXDM OBOVIT. 



JUUA 



KINGSLEY 




LEWIS 



lELtOI 



•*Afl» the 
S. K. MOIMDOM. m, 7i 



*• abA •' 



Fev 



flw TntmwtXU AT UHETT OMX. Ittk. 
OiTCM mOMIBT aiEABB. IMi MBOAS(WAT, MSW TOBM. m lEMD W: 



JUGGLING THORNS 



OMAmAOTXB SIMOZMO. 



NELUE SEYMOUR 

FME. ADDBMM, ItO WIST lltth ST., 'VMOMX M70 MOlMXMOflDI. 



Inn-, 




Spauldin^ and Dupuee 

A OomedlAn that la Tuaaj. 

A Lady with a Yeioa. 

A OjBBaat that They Talk Abovt. 

ADD&EB8 BOX Ut, OSBDIIHO, M. T. 

JIMMIE LUCAS 



"TMS BOT WZTM 
Xelth and Orpheam Tima. 



TMB DIALBGm. 



*• 



MLLE. 



SOUSA 



AND 



SLOAN 



HARRY 



-Itti 



In tbeir own erifflaal oomedy, entitled 

" HIS DAY O F^ F^ •• 

BIft LAirOMIMa MIT M VMHWMM Ki 

"If T OM OA M*T MB •OOD, BB OABBTVL." 

OER IIVIM 

A FBBM. 





TMB imStTIDIOITATOB AMD TMB MAOIOIZZM. 

("WateA the Boabbac*.") 
Wateh tha in leh, UE TMB i FEEMOM POODLE DOOA. 
MAMAOEBS AMD AOEMTB IMTXTED. This we«k Pastor'e. New York City. 

DARE DEVIL CASTELLANE 






by YOta. 

*#AF OP SBATX" AMD TBMJM OTOUBTB. 

Mi aaia YABXETT, Ohieace OAoe. 7t B. Olark Bt 



MAJESTIC MUSICAL FOUR 



Oolliit, Henry, Torrill and Simon 

HIGH CLASS 
COMEDY MUSICAL OFFERING 



WW M^^% VW^W^^vM^ 



Ml itmm ■!»• ■• M. 
§ i» mii $dmmi$ hM^ memttot^ VuBwrt* 



» 



V^HIIiXV 



RBPRBSEINT/ITIVB ARTISTE 



REPRBSEMTATIVB ARTI«T« 




THB KNGLI8H VENTRILOQUIST 



Mint. H. B. MAIMBLLl 



WmK Oct. St, St. LmOs, M*. 



Touring AiB*rle» 




Fred Karno's London 

Pantomimo Go's. 

i ' ''- Headlinen eyery where— and get the money back. 

Slumi Co. in a new sketch, ''Night in a London Club; or, The Smoking Concert." 

— t miT II Ai EI8LISH msie mil, "'^A^.^l^Miri.'^ 

Copyrighted at Washington. Attorney Wmu Groaaman. 
The original and legitimate productions. 
Jail Birds and The Smoking Concert in repertoire. 
General Manager, ALF. REEVES. Agents, WM. MORMS and H. B. MAMWBLLL 

METROPOLITAN 

OPERA TRIO 

Ms*. ANlfA PLUH, Prina Dsaaa Sl|pi«ri TOITORICO mi4 BUSBl 

In coodenMd Tcraloiis of "II Trorator*" and "Dtost" trio*. Scenery and ooatoma 

Grand Opara Blnffera wbo have aoaf In Grand Opera. 
n>A OASLS. BMinaaa Eap w aa n tatlTa, tt 7ani«a BnUdiMr. 



CL 






TKX tEVlATIOyAL OTOLDTe 

SUR 

lEiei, PLORKETT I VESLET. 





ST.X 



nwTo; 



BARBER -RITCHIE TRIO 



TIan aU Iliad wntU aw 



ta 
Flaakatt 



Weak Oot. tS, Albant^'a, BaltimoT^ 
MM. It. Jaaaa Maek. llli 



'THB ORIOINATOR 



Ferguson and Mack 

Booked tdii latU DtMmber. DirMtion JACK LXYY. 

RYANJaCHFIELD COMPANY 

" "Mag Haggerty's Reception" 

BT WILL IC. OKBaiT. 

nL moMJUM. KAMTXM^ Tovm isvr^t szaaoTiov f. •. wn.T.Tini 



SECOND SEASON 



Lynotte Sisters 



'WAfSZVGTOV OOOISrT ftXBXJ' 

■sABov 'te-'vr. 



DIBBOnOV 
W. B. WATIOV. 



HAVB YOUR CARD IN VARIETY 




AND 




rr 




Hats retvniad to thrir aid Add, V ATJDEYIIXB. 



COMEDIANS WHO CAN SING 



REGARDS TO FRIENDS. 



THE ORIQIMAL 

B|Nj ZOUG ZOUG TssyEi 

TEN MRABS 

Open time October 22 and November, December and Jannary. 

Address all commonications 

BOBKER, Luna Villa, Coney Island, N. Y. 



THE OEKMAH POLITICIAV, 



CLIFF GORDOH 

Bookad aolld. Got. IS, Zaith'a Vnian Bquara. 
■tvff that I am talliac about Haarit and Hafhaa tha bifgaat hit I arar had. AABOV HOmur did It 

AAAZV Rll I V UADT TBS XU1CAB 

razBtt vxw. IBIkk ■ ■■#%■% I yxBTBiLoauxfT nauBX. 

aaalated l»7 
lOM AVVA TJLLB aVD MABIX JABIBV. 
In a Moral Oooady Act, OlTlnff a Baal Borlaoqne Imitation on ▼entrUoqalam. 
Mj awn Idaa. I am Ilia flrat; tha orlflnator; ao ramambar that. 
Thla aaaaan "Tankaa Doodla Olrla" Oo. Plratea, don't treapaaa. Tmlj Toara. 

BILLT HABT. 



WITM BO: 



Mherva Vano 



Oat itaadUlv. 



SMdasant. 



In prapaimtion, an oriainal nnicyela aanaation. Orisinatad and inventad by 

Cycling Zanoras 

KnocRabout Comedy Cyclists 

gEAflOy '0e.'07, BEHTZ-BABTLBT 00. _ 

Bettina Bruce -"' Co. 

y rsayaix "the asHES of aoai" 

Willie Weston 

TOVBOrO XV YAirDEVILLX. 
Bookad aalld managamant AL MATBB. It Jamaa Bttildlng. 



larry Smith, Mamie Champion, Sam J. Adams s Comp' y 

IN "THE IVIAOIO BOOT" -^^^^ -^ 



TME IVIAOIC 






VARXB/TY 



REPReSENTATIVB ARTI«T8 



RePRBSEMTATIVE ARTI«T« 



-» TREMENDOUS SUCCESS -» 



I * 



CAMERON *JLJ' FLANAGAN 



mm 

I 



It 



ON and 




99 



ftrt miBtitM la "eot^" 14 nlantw In th* txmJtat nem. n« act i» a«i*«i, odgiaal aal OUK OWN. AITT OHZ CAUGHT nfFBIHOING on any of onr ligbte WILL HOT 

HATB TO GO TO LAW BUT TO THK HOSPITAL. 



THE GREATEST ACT IN VAUDEVILLE 



Alex 




AMD COMPANY 



IN 



"The End of the World" 

■ ■'. • "f'-. - 

-■.::■■;.:;. ■ BY ■■ '- ■•'■ "'^ 

AAROH HOFFMAK 

Eitri Fiitun with "WIIE. IIIM kit SOIB" IB., SiiMi <IOI-7. 



•THS AOT BBAimrUL. 



** 



••THE 

GIRI^ 

IN 

TROUSERS" 

II 



IRENE LEE 



AXD HXft 



■ ■)' 



KANDY KIDS" 



WEES ocrr. m. 



OKFHEVM, BOBTOH. MA88. 




H a rvey 



*'THB HUMAV BBBEEW KAIK FZV." 
BpeoUl enffacMnsnt, playlnf th* leadiac H«br«w part In ttook at tha Ball Tbaatra, Oakland. Oal. 

LLOYD SPENCER 

Character Impersonator in "Odds and Ends of Comedy" 

Booked by WILLIAM MORRIS, CHICAGO OFFICE. / 

PERMANENT ADDRESS, CARE VARIETY, CHICAGO OFFICE, 79 S. CLARK ST. 

, Note: Hotel Philabum, Grand Rapids, Oct. a, *o6. 

''Lloyd Spencer has everybody that I ever saw doing a Chinaman whipped to A 
frazzle. When it comes to face, mannerisms and dialect, he IS 'IT." 

—John "CWnee** Leach. 



OBEAT BEVBATXOVAL NOYBLTT FEATirKB, 



CONTINO/LAIA/RENCE 

Orlffiaal ap*tld*-dowB danoan, all ethara dandng vp-ilda-down ara pirataa. 



IBWARD 



USICAL BRENNANS -«*>»> 



"The MuRlcal Brennans are wonders In the way they extract mnilc from all klnda of Ifaalcal Instm- 

menta. Acta like these are a great addition to any bill."— Philadelphia, Pa., Item. 

Opan time in January and February. Addresa oara VABIETT or Ollppar. 



C 
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PONIES AVD KAUD. 



Woodward's Seals 

Present owner and manager, CLIFF BERZAC 



VAT 



BUBT 



WIXON and EATON 




IVI 



TWO MEB AHD A DRUM IH A WHIRL OF TBAYEITr 
With Famoua Ranta-Bantlay Oo. 

rl'fcon iVia 

II & 







FBBnvTnro "the m aofie abp thb jat.** 
by edw. webt zbl. 

WEEK OCT. SS, K. ft P. FIFTH AVE., B. T. CITX. 



CHAS. NICHOLS 



Writar and produoar of antira production of "Star Bhow Oirla," playinir titla rola of "Depay 
8E00VD 8EA10V. ICABAaBiaaiT OF WIL 



»t 



JUNO SALMO 

on the strength of a single performance at the New York Theatre, has arranged for an 
entire season's booking through that very live agent, 

M. S. BENTHAM 

over the Keith, Proctor and Orpheum Circuits, commencing May 13 of next year. 
Sails (to-day) Saturday, October 20, to fulfill foreign engagements. 

Opens at London Empire, January 7, for Eight Weeks. 

First Open Time April, 1908. 

HARRY FOX and Twin 

MELNOTTE 




A dainty comedy oonoootion in one. With "Dreamland Burleiqueri." 
Permanent address care VARIETY, Chloaco Ofioe, 79 B. Clark St. 



ABOUT THE I^IMIT OF COMEDY CYCLING. " Thmt'j XVhaf They A.lt Say." 





PRBSBNTING 



A P«r route 



"FLIPS and FLOPS" 

? ■ . ■■.•■•- * . . ■-.,•. / ■ 



Second Season Merry Maidens Co, 



YAftlBTY 



i**iaHMaiMaMMairti 



RBPRBeBMTATIVB ARTI«Te 



RBPRB0BNTATIVB ARTI«T« 



Blllle Ritchie 



A VSOBWROV* 



EdT-Reynard 

P li t utl ua MABTDI VBOX* 

Gartelle Bros. 

0ICATORIAL.I87Vi 

W«A Oct. tl, OlTmplo, OhloafOt IU« 

WMk Oot. It. O. 0. a., ladUaapoUa. lad. 

V«T. t. Columbia, Olaoiiuuttl, O. 




. n wmi 9Uk 



'■w«Us fr«B th* PMifle' 



Kelly and Yiolene 

ITLTBA FAlHIOy PLATEI 
WKEK OCT. tt, FORTXJLVD, lOB. 

™ TOSSING 
AUSTINS 

BOOKXD MUD TILL JAWimT, ItfT. 
WSEK OCT. tt, FEOOTOS'S, SBWAEK. 



MM1> MSI. 



HARRY TIIORNE 

AMD 00. 

FARCEURS 

■tm UtIv Xkfpflj is tte IMM Old ria*. 



vaudt 



Its : il!AM 

OOMIDT tlVODre AMD SAVODTO. 

Mm 

KLBITH OIRCIJIT 



TEAVK O. 



HARBT 




Week Oct. 88, Keith's, PortUnd, Me. 
Week Got. 89, Keith' i, Lawrenoe, Mast. 





AND 



"THX DUTCaafAV AMD TMI siDinr.*' 
Week Oct. 22— rtmlly lliMtre. DavMport, It. 
Week Oct. 20^Pw>rU. lU. 

MAE BILLIARD 



F«r. AUtm*. 0m« TASOrr. 



LILLIAN SHAW 

Ttftl MMmI OiMailaMb ttm* all 

WMk Oet. tt, 9oww4, 9Mto«« 



^ 




OOOr* lOMB Wi 




«KSMAV OOMKDIAM 
wUk *'IALSZMOBX BSAUTZM** 

OMAf. TATLOB, Mgr. 





ZM "THB JXfTMQ 7UMFKZV*' 
Boekad toUA ky WMtan TtaiMllto 



4 mmn i 



AMKUOA'l VmSMZBft MOOT EOLXJBl 
TIMB ALL VOLZXD 



OMAS. ■. 



Colby "May 

Tin Veitriloqalit aid Tk« DaKfag Doll 
Plajrtag Rotara Datoa Bvorywhora 
P«r. A««. M WtOtactlB R.. Rnui« W. A, 



ChM (TWO) AUc« 

Shrodes 



MTORKING 



KATES 



EOOKVTRIO AOmOBATl OV 





onunrxT. 



THoa punnr pkllowb 




BELL&HENRY 

Ita root*, "MoadMotor Night 
Owla.'* BoprMmtod It B. B. 
MartooDl. 
Wook. Oet. tt, Treeoiwo, Cki- 

eaco, m. 
EeproMated by B. B. MMaoUL 



TNC CONEDV NULC ACT 

III CUVE, lEITIIITH 

Nettie Vesta 

llaflac Oooaodleaao. iddrwi oaio TABXBTT. 



BOMETHIHO BZW. 



BEALLT PVBBT. 



Latoy Bros. 

Oomedy Aerobots. 
OLYMPIC. GBICAOO. OCT. It. 



BURTON aid RANKIN 

_____^ BoToliy MiUtaij AH, 



BDLLIE REEVES 






wllk 



KOVIS 



SINON/dARDNER 



• loiMl 



»t 



■tuaiy 



loo 



F ields Mti WoolBy 



te "A My te M Alt 



Miss Baffin's 

MONKEYS 



TEXARKANA' 
andWALBY 




IB PNt Wmnmhi **A Btgkt te Iko Lwii •ta*fl'*i 
oloo tko orlffiaal *'iraBk" te **A Might ot •» 
■agllah MmIc Hon." 

Wook Oct. It, Orphonm, Brooklya. 

Neva Aymar 



Piotaioi wMk Bod 

"BAZB-DBABI** 
Orpkowo akow 'tt-'fT 



m wlm 



•BBAT TZOLIBiar, 
OB Pioao kr klo 
iHd " 



BBBBT PXB0U8, Moaofor. 
•t JaaMo Bide.. Bow Totk <X«j. 



PATTY- FRANK 
TROUPE 

AotaoBATio woBsna. 



Willis Family 

U AaMotaa aatU Maj m BoMk Otfoatt. Umtm 



.aMITMvli 



WlB.B.ARLIN(iTON 
"° (illSSie HELSTON 

"GOIlfG TO THB MAaQUBBADB BAIl^'* 






and Company 



EYERHART 

The Tlwler loUHItt 

THE GAGNOUX 

OBieiBAL TVeOLXia ABD BaVZLZBBllTa. 
Weak Oet. It, Procter*! Mtk at.. B. T. Cit y. 

ElMEITuiMclEIll 



IB TABBByZLLB. 



LEAHY BROS. 



Nift vMr card It Varlilv 



Three 

Sensational 

Zoellers 



WHO n TBIB 




Oh. Tea! That aarokat with 
BTBBB BBOBw *'t" r^rm 



Farrell-Taylor Trio 



WILDER 



Henhell 
f. 



Per. 



Bow ToA 




LOUISE DRESSER 

WITX LBW HBLDT *'AB0VT TOWB*' cnk 



WISGIN'S FARM 



VARIETY 



27 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTI 




REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 



m 



DULUTH. MINN.. WEEK OCT. 2Z. 

YAIKH DOODLt (ilRlS 

50*1 NCYtRS. m!1nAG%R. 



i^tm^t^m 



K^ 



PBEBEMTTVO TWO BXmLESQUES WBIT> 
tElf AND f TAQEP BY. J AMES F. LEOMABD. 

BU-LY HART 

Tbe oiifln&l Hanum ▼entriloqnUt tevre. «•• 

lilted b7 A^OA T&l* and Xari* 7an«Ma, 

In a real oomedy act "A Plajrihliic." 

LAWRENCE CRANE 

"THE IBI8H MAQICIAV." 

Aaaiited by May Crawford A Co. Introduoinf 

hit lateit illusion "Cremation." 

JAMES AND DAVIS 

••THE DIXIE B0T8." 
We Talk, Sing and Some Mere. 

McDeVITT and KELLY 

ECCENTBIC DANCEB8 AHD COXEOIAITS. 

JAS. P. LEONARD 

ASSISTED BT HISS CLABA WHITHEY 



rRED 



LILLIAN 



RySSEU AND HELD 

enroEBs avd davoebb. 

•Mt Dressed Act in Vamderill*. Beeked Solid. 

Hacker-tester 

Trio 



OOICEDT CYCLISTS. 



Booked Solid. 



ST. PAUL, WEEK OCTOBER 22. 

"HKH SCHOOL (IRIS" 



axTEEirs or BVBLiesavE. 



CEAS. 



JOHN 



Burke Bros. 

Throw away your danoing shoea. We are com- 
^'•■:. Inf East. 

P. B — We both wear tithU. 
MELANCHOLY DESTBOYEBS. 

BIJOU 

° COMEDY FOUR- 

M. Meehan, J. Nelson, W. Oswold, P. Depew. 
** Don't Get Excited.** 



GEO. 



LILLA 



Brennans 

Burlesque Sinf ins &nd Talking. 
P. S — We don't wear tifhta. 



CLOSING THE OLIO. 



ALIOS 



WILLARD 
„,„ HUGHES 

"From the Bowery to Broadway." Comedy 
Sinriny and Talking. 14 Minutes in On«. 



SPECIAL FEATVBE. 



Hilda Carle 

AND HEB 

12— RED RAVENS— 12 



THE BBIGHTEST SPOKE IN THE WHEEL. 



"U/>e Parisian Belles" Co 

^ JOHN GBIEYES. MOB. 

Presenting the best of all two-aot oomedles. 
^ "A PAIB or PEACHES," or "MY WIPE WON'T LET ME." 

SHEPPARD CAMP 

LEADING COMEDIAN. 



BEBT— 



SOMERS and LAW 



—FEED 



THE AT7T0MANIACS. 



ARTHUR YULEC 

MIMIC. 



Mildred Grover 

BINQEB OF COON SONGS. 

Lftilti KeegaA 

CHABACTEB COMEDinnrE. 



Alice Warren 

as "MRS. PEACH." 

R.ebe Donaldson 

CHABACTEBISTIC DANCE ABTIBT. 



"DALY and O'BRIEN 

THOSE FXTNNY TANGLEFOOT DANCEB8. 



JUST TO ENCOURAGE THE LAUGHING HABIT. 



WALTEB 



NATALIE 



HAWLEY and OLCOH 

PBBSBNTINO M*R. HAWLKT'S roftapY, "JUST 
MARRIED A WEEK." 

A clean, homelike playlet; a rare langh getter. 

ALL AGENTS. 

AOENTt. ATTENTION I 

ROLTARE 

With kia aMffioal monalegM mU tke Mggeet 

tag production — flays of all nations— ever pr^ 
seated in Vaudeville. All time open for New 
York datea. including Sundays. 

(Botbo addreea. ff1» W. tOtk St. Ph«M 
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BUMPTY BUMPS 

Arthur J. MUs Qrace 

MeWATERS mi TYSON 

in a Spectacular Musical Comedy 
"VAUDEVIbbE" 

Week Oct. 8S, Olympio, Chicago, Dl. Week Odt. 

89, Haymarket, Chicago. HI. Week Not. 

5, Columbia. St. Louia. Mo. 

JACK INORWORTH 

WITH LEW FIELDS' "ABOtTT TOWN" 00. 



VRANK B. CARR'S 

"THOROUGHBREDS" 



WASH MABTIN, 



MANAGEB. 



HENRY and FRANCIS 

IN THE "NEW JANITOB." 

NIBLO and RILEY 

THE WOOD DEALEB AND THE KID. 

Washburn and Flynn 

THE ANIMATED TWO 

CHAS, W, DOUQLAS 

COMEDLAN. 

HARRY McAYOY 

COMEDIAN. 

SAM SCHILLER 

MUSICAL DIBECTOB. 

MLLE. LA TOSKA 

CONTOBTIONIST. 

And 25 Prancing Fillies 



l!0SS«4fWS 

"THE YANKEE DOODLE DVO" 

IN TOM FOOLEBY. 

Opening Moss-Stoll Tour February 89, 1007. 

RedfordsWindiester 

BOOKED SOLID. 
This week Keith-Proctor's 58th St., N. Y. City. 

lliEimsi 

IN "PKIMA DONNA AND CHO." 

ADDRESS 118 WEST i4TH ST. 

Telephone 1159-R Bryant. 

Ln to M 

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COMEDIENNES 



IN VAUDEVILLE. 



SADIE HUESTED 

UTAOiMG BOY 

With Baltimore Beautiee. ' 

CHERIDAH SIMPSON 

starring in "The Red Feather." 
Direction 708. M. GAITES. 

*^HS NASBOW WKLLmr " 

Dave Mowlln 

THE MAN WITH MANY VOIOBS. 

Keith -Proctor Cirouit. 



MILWAUKEE, WEEK OCT. 21 

"THE TIGER LILIES" 

WILL N. DREW. PBOP. AND MGB. 



Beatrke llarlowe 



LEADING WOMAN. 



GEO. P. MURPHY 

GEBMAN comedian: 
The man who sings the "Shane Garden House." 

0D. CLAKK F.~BOIfD 

Corbly & Biirko 

comedians and dancebs. 

NAY BtLNONT 



THAT'S ALL. 



THAT'S XNOVtK. 



(IIARIES BARRETT 

THE MEBBY STBAIOHT MAN^ 

Lavello & Grant 

Exponents of physioal oulture and hlgh-oUas 
hand aorobats. 



JEANmE Sli[RWOOD 



INGENUE. 



Dnisy Hiircourt 

THE COMEDIENNE. 
Address WILLIAM MOBBIB. 





"THE DIXIE BOY." 
Booked solid till July, 1907. OTor Keith Oironlt by 
MYEBS A KELLEB. 

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NAR[INi(ROU(H 

WEEK OCT. 82D. DEWEY, NEW YOBK CITYi 
EN ROUTE. EMPIRE SHOW. 

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Buy them and you will have the best. Used ex* 
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Millard Bros. 



MINNIE 



EDDIE 




Singing and Talking Act. Travesty on Virginua 
SAM DEVERE'S OWN COMPANY SEASON 

•06-'07. 

STUART BARNES 



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VARIXTY 



MORRIS WILL HAVE SHUBERT 
HOUSES. 

The transfer of several of the Shubert 
Brothers' theatres in diflFerent cities to 
William Morris, or interests he represents, 
may be announced at any time. 

The attorneys for the firm and Mr. Mor- 
ris have been giving attention to the de- 
tails for Meveial days past. Upon the 
theatres coming into the possession of 
Morris they will continue permanently 
as vaudeville houses, and raise opposition 
to an established vaudeville theatre in 
three of the four cities now in question. 



RYAN'S EXCLUSIVE MORRIS BOOK- 
INGS. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 26. 

John J. Ryan, the vaudeville manager 
and promoter, returned last Monday from 
Chicago. He announced that his vaude- 
ville theatre in the Windy City would posi- 
tively open by next season. Mr. Ryan left 
the same night for St. I»uis to arrange 
for his house there. 

An agreement lias been reached between 
Ryan and W^illiam Morris, the agent, of 
New York City, who now books for the 
Olympic Theatre (Ryan's) in Cincinnati. 
Under the terms of it Mr. Ryan will have 
the exclusive privilege of booking through 
the Morris office for Chicago, Philadelphia, 
Pittsburg, St. Ix)ui8, Detroit, Cincinnati 
and Cleveland. 

This seems to settle the argument as to 
which Morris manager will invade Phila- 
delphia and Pittsburg. The other citios 
have not been so eagerly sought after. 



BIG AGENCY SCHEME. 

There is a scheme afoot to organize a 
large booking agency, with offices in all 
the principal capitals of the world. It 
will have no connections with any of the 
recognized agencies now operating, or with 
managers. 

There is no assurance that the deal will 
be successful, but it is believed that for- 
eign artists' societies are behind the 
movement, and the plan is to focus all 
bookings of its members in any country 
under its direct supervision. 



FIFTH AVENUE MAY GIVE UP. 

There is already talk around the Fifth 
Avenue Theatre that the former policy of 
stock plays will be reverted to. 

The discouraging business since the 
Keith-Proctor firm installed the continuous 
vaudeville has about decided Messrs. Keith 
and Proctor to abandon the vaudeville end 
within the next month unless the attend- 
ance materially improves. 

On Wednesday evening last B. F. Keith, 
by his solitary self, overlooked the situa- 
tion from the back of the orchestra rail. 
On that particular evening there were no 
signs of life, row after row of orchestra 
seats being vacant. 



NEW HOUSE IN HARRISBURG. 

Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 26. 

Contracts were signed yesterday with 
C. & C. E. Horn, of New York city, for the 
plans and specifications for a $100,000 
vaudeville theatre to be erected here. 

M. Reis, of the Reis circuit of lej^itimate 
theatres, and N. Appell will supply the 
capital and manage the venture. The site, 
purchased some time ago, is located in the 
centre of the city. 



EASTERN GOING IN SCHENECTADY. 

Schenectady, N. Y., Oct. 26. 

The Mohawk Theatre here, under the 
management of Weber & Rush, the New 
Y<»rk Eastern Burlesque Wheel managers, 
will be turned over for that circuit's at- 
tractions the moment it becomes definitely 
known that the Western Wheel has de- 
cided to enter the city, as is now rumored. 

The Mohawk is at present playing 
vaudeville, having done so since its open- 
ing. It would be a considerable sacrifice 
on Weber & Rush's part to give up that 
profitable pursuit for the hazard of a new 
venture, but strife in burlesque is stren- 
uous. It is declared here the firm has 
said it will have the first burlesque theatre 
in Schenectady regardless of the cost. 

Provided this town becomes an Eastern 
Wheel spoke, it will fill up the three days' 
"lay off" caused by the "jump" of Scran- 
ton, Pa., to the Western W^heel just before 
the season opened. 



HOBOKEN WILL HAVE A HOUSE. 

That the Eastern Burlesque Wheel will 
have a theatre in Hoboken, and opened by 
January 15, seems almost certain. There 
is no doubt regarding the theatre which 
will be the former building of the Quartet 
Club in that city. 

Max II. Meyers, who will be the man- 
ager of the house when completed, de- 
clines to say what the policy will be, but 
the situation there answers burlesque. 

The company controlling the theatre 
will hold the Eastern Wheel "franchise" 
for Hudson County, including Jersey City. 



WILL EASTERN GIVE UP READING? 

.^Reading, Pa., Oct. 26. 

It is rumored in town that the Eastern 
Iiurlesque Wheel contemplates giving up 
the Bijou Theatre here. It is run by the 
Wheel, though UpdegraflF & Brownell are 
supposed to manage the house. 

All shows that play it are compelled 
to "lay oflf" the first three days of the 
week on account of the burlesque theatre 
in Scranton going over to the opposition 
two months ago. 

The Eastern Wheel denies the truth of 
the above report, saying there has never 
been any intention of taking Reading off 
its route sheet. 



THE RECORD BURLESQUE RECEIPTS. 

The printing in Variety last week of 
this year's record receipts in the burlesque 
theatres of both Wheels has aroused not 
a little comment among the managers. 
It came out in the discussion that the 
largest gross receipts for a burlesque week 
was $8,500. This was when Harry Morris' 
travesty on "Trilby" played the Standard 
Theatre, St. Louis, during the World's 
Fair. 



EASTERN TO DROP NORFOLK. 

The Majestic Theatre at Norfolk, Va., 
which has been playing the Eastern Bur- 
lesque Wheel attractions, will be discon- 
tinued by the Wheel as its Norfolk resting 
place between now and December 1. 

Until the new theatre -of the Eastern 
Wheel in Washington is completed its 
shows will "lay off" for a week between 
Philadelphia and Baltimore, Norfolk hav- 
ing played the week between those two 
cities. 



LUESCHER AFTER MUSIC HALL. 
Mark A. Luescher on behalf of the 
Irwin-Luescher Company has been in ac- 
tive negotiation with Joseph Weber for 

a lease of Weber's Music Hall, commenc- 
ing November 5 and extending up to the 
time of its occupation by the regular stock 
company. 

That Luescher was very sanguine of 
coming to a definite understanding wai 
indicated by the fact that he has cabled 
Ada Reeves, the English singer, an offer 
to come over for four weeks at a large 
salary as the principal feature of his new 
house. It is Luescher's scheme to con- 
duct the place along the lines of a typical 
Tx)ndon music hall, the attractions to con- 
sist in the main of foreign acts. For the 
afternoon performances it is intended that 
no smoking or drinking be allowed. 



VETOES HERALD SQUARE SUNDAY 
CONCERTS. 

The report that Geo. Homans had en- 
gaged the Herald Square Theatre for Sun- 
day night concerts closely approached an 

actuality at one time. Sydney Orant • 
would have been Mr. Homans' partner in "^ 
the transaction had not I-^w Fields con- 
cluded the house would not be benefited 
by Sunday shows, vetoing all overtures; 



WILLIAMS NONCOMMITTAL. 



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What stand Percy Williams will take 
through Mrs. Langtry playing Keith & 
Proctor's Harlem Opera House in opposi- 
tion to his Alhambra Theatre in the same 
neighborhood, where the English actress 
is booked to play later* Mr. Williams can 
not be persuaded to state. 

It may be that Williams has decided 
to await the returns as to Mrs. Langtry's 
drawing powers in the upper section of the 
city. If the attendance at the Harlem 
Opera House allows the conclusion to be 
reached that an engagement at his Al- 
hambra would be profitable, Mr. Will- 
iams may permit the Englishwoman to 
appear there. In the other event, there are 
probably excellent grounds to be found for 
justifiable cancellation. _ 



KEITH WILL ASSIST PRODUCERS. 

Arrangements are now being perfected 
for the establinhment of a producing office 
in connection with the Keith and Orpheum 
circuits. .lust as soon as the various 
theatres of the Keith circuit rtow in 
course of completion are opened to the 
public the scheme will be brought to a 
head. It is not intended to interfere with 
the ideas adopted by vaudeville producers, 
but to cover a wider scope in the produc- 
tion line. 

Negotiations are now pending with a 
well-known stage manager at present in 
the employ of one of the biggest of the 
legitimate Broadway producers and thea- 
tre managers. A pUy reader will also be 
employed and the office will be as thor- 
oughly equipped in an executive capacity 
as those of Herbert Gresham, Ben Teal 
and stagt directors of that calibre. 

Authom are to be invited to submit 
their sketches for a reading and will be 
assisted in the selection of proper casts 
for their works. Small acts will be sent 
for and properly rehearsed, dressed and 
etiuipped scenically. It will be the first 
.<*erious eflfort fathered by any allianre of 
managers toward the uplifting and de- 
veloping of vaudeville offerings. When, 
in th'e opinion of the stage director se- 
lected, an. act is fully equipped for launch- 
ing, time will be given it over the Keith 
and Orpheum circuits and the cost of pro- 
ducing and dressing will be deducted from 
the weekly salary paid the owner. Tender 
no circumstances is it the intention of the 
producing office to have any financial in- 
terest in an act other than to have re- 
turned in weekly payments the original 
expense incurred in properly presenting 
it. 

P. F. Nash, of the United Booking 
Agency, is to exercise a general super- 
vision of the scheme, working under the 
direction of E. F. Albee. A fund of 
$25,000 has already been subscribed for 
the promulgation of the idea, and an 
official announcement will be made before 
tlio holidays. 






DEMAND FOR WILLIAMS. 

Bransby Williams, the English character 
artist, sails for home November 5 to fulfil 
his European bookings, despite alluring 
offers for him to remain in America. In 
addition to the requests for his services by 
American vaudeville managers, Henry W. 
Savage is anxious to star him in a play 
to be written especially for that purpose. 
But Williams insists that he will keep 
faith with the foreign houses. 



THOMPSON & DUNDY HOLDING BACK. 

Thompson & Dundy have ceased all 
work on their park at Fort George for 
the coming summer season. When they 
purchased the site for their new resort 
last year they were assured by the street 
railway people that adequate transporta- 
tion facilities would be immediately made, 
but the matter is now in the hands of . 
the law committee of the railway company 
and they are so deliberate in their action 
that the firm prefers to await something 
definite before going on with improve- 
nients. 



COLISEO ARGENTINO CLOSED. 

Ix)ndon, Oct. 18. 

From Buenos Ayres comes tbfe important 
HOWS that the Coliieo Argentino has closed, 
Frank Brown, the English clown, depart- 
ing for Rosnrlo, Argentine, with his com- 
pany. No one has suffered monetary lassos. 

So far as can be judged at thi.s distance 
(here was a conflict between the ideas of a 
showman and those of the business men 
who were barking him. Brown himself 
has great personal popularity and a large 
following. 

This leaves Richard Seguin alone in the 
South American field, and artists going to 
his Teatro Varietos can be assured of fair. 
square treatment. He is one of the most 
bankable of the foreign directors, and if 
an'act goes wrong he may kick to the agent, 
but always pays the artist. Some day there 
will be a big passenger line direct to Buenos 
.Vyres and then a lot of American acta will 
find good work that way. In the future 
South America must be a great country for 
amusement parka. 



SHORT "GIRL FROM PARIS." 

Edward E. Rice is organizing a com 
pany of seven people for the production 
in vaudeville of a condensed version vi 
"The Girl from Paris." 



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No. 7. 



Juno S^alnio sailed last Saturday to ful- 
111 his foreign enjjagenients. -■ - ^ 



The Navajo Girls replaced the Pony 
Hallet at the Twenty-third street theatre 
this week. ' ' . 



The team of Dodds ^nd Labant has dis- 
solved. Joe l)odds U in Piijua, Ohio, ar- 
ranging a new act. ^, .. «• 



It is officially given out that B. F. 
Keith's new theatre in Jersey City will 
open on November 6. i ■ 

The Dollar Troupe of acrobats has been 
engaged for twelve weeks at the New Yorli 
Hippodrome, opening November 19. 



There is a list in the H. B. Marinelli 
oHice in T/ondon of 200 foreign acts with 
open time for the month of November. 



The many foreign acts in America are 
curtailing the employment of native tal- 
ent in vaudeville to an alarming degree. 



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<}ardner and Stoddard have becu booked 
for London by the Marinelli Agency. Tlie 
tt'am will open at the Palace theie iu De- 
i<Mnber. 



Bell and Henry will leave the "Night 
Owls" company this week. They will 
play vaudeville dates for the balance of 
the season. "■■■"■-'':"'■- ^ '"■''■•■":■ \ 



John Sherwood, for the past five seasons 
with Krancesca Redding, will hereafter 
be known by his proper name, Charles 
I^e Calder. 



Ross and I^wis return to England on 
February 25. They lately arrived here 
after a long tour on the other side. 



Jack Lorlmer, "the Scotch breeder of 
smiles," will open on the Williams circuit 
December 3. Mr. I»rimer*s specialty is 
singing and eccentric dancing. 



Frank Coombs and Muriel Stone in 
'The I^st of the Troupe" have signed 
with the SuUivan-Considine circuit, open- 
ing in Butte, Mont., on November 3. 

Virginia Ainsworth has left the cast 
of "Sergeant Kitty," which is playing the 
one-night stands in the West and will re- 
turn to vaudeville for a limited period. 



The annual entertainment given by Ma- 
jor Burk, the secretary of the White Rats, 
will occur December 5 at Elks' Hall in the 
Majestic Theatre building at Columbus 
(Circle. 



From far-off Spokane comes the infor- 
mation that Frank Finney's family has 
been enlarged through the advent of a 
young lady who weighed ten pounds at 
the start. 



Maude Lambert was compelled to close 
at the Victoria on Thursday owing to a 
severe cold. She was replaced for the re- 
mainder of the week by Melville and 
Stetson. 



Max Anderson, whose interest in the 
New York Hippodrome was supposed to 
have fixed \\\s residence permanently in 
New York, departed hurriedly on Wednes- 
day for Chicago. 



The Four Gregorys, hoop rollers, will 
play at the Circus Carre, Amsterdam, next 
April. From that city the act will tour the 
Continent and England, booked by Mari- 
nelli. 



When Houdini played the Grftsd Opera 
House at Pittsburg he gav* ||i«9 shows 
one day to accommodate the crowda. Mr. 
Houdini received a day's salmry for the 
extra performance. - n ' 



Before Sydney M. Hyman leaves New 
York for London he will probably have 
booked about twenty American acts for his 
South African halLs. Several are already 
engaged. Leah RoHtU is one. 

Beatrice Harlowe of the "Tiger Lillies" 
company has been granted an absolute 
divorce from A. Jack Faust in the Su- 
preme Court of Cook County, Illinois. 
She has resumed her maiden name. 



Owing to an accident which resulted in 
n broken arm, Alexander, the imperHonator, 
was compelled to cancel the engagement at 
Keitir.s Providence. The followiup time 
for a number of weeks was likewigf aacri- 
ficed. . / : 



Grace Cameron announces that she will 
shortly appear in a musical comedy writ- 
ten by^ her brother, C. 11. Kerr. The title 
will be 'Little Dolly Dimples." Kline, Ott 
Brothers and Nicholson have been engaged 
for it.; ' ■ '•:... ■ . '•■■" • 



Three of the foreign acts booked by H. 
H. Feiber for immediate importation and 
opening on the Keith circuit are The 
Krankas, acrobats; The Finneys, fancy 
swimming, and the Bol.ong Brothers, 
balancers. 



A trial performance was given on 
Friday afternoon at the Union Square 
Theatre of a Japanese playlet entitled 
"Children of Japan." The producer and 
l)rincipal actor in the sketch was T. 
Tamamoto. ^ -...- -..'. 



Harding and Ah Sid, with Mile. Olive, 
have returned from the other side. Fa- 
vorable time over there has been offered 
to the two acts, and unless suitable book- 
ings are secured here they will travel 
abroad once more. 



M. S. Bentham is arranging a vaudeville 
tour for Edwin Arden and four people in 
a sketch, the action of which takes place 
in the midst of the recent Japanese- 
Russian war. It is said to be a tragedy 
of much strenjith. 



Minerva Vano, whose sobriquet is 'the 
handcuff queen," has closed with the Ja- 
cobs-Jermond show, "Greater New York 
Stars," and will go with the "Star Show 
Girls" for a six weeks tour, joining the 
organization in Chicago. 



It is estimated that H. H. Feiber, the 
Keith foreign booking agent, engaged be- 
tween 250 and 300 foreign acts while on 
his last visit in the old country. Every 
boat arriving has one or more acts aboard 
consigned to the Keith office. 



La Belle Blanche, the mimic, closed a 
week ago with "The Press Agent." She 
will peep out from under the Shubert 
Brothers' wing for a six weeks tour in 
vaudeville, after which she will return 
to the anti-syndicate firm's managenient. 



'r\\e opening of the Circle Theatre last 
Monday on scheduled time cost M* M. 
Thie.se, whose show "Wine, Woman and 
Song" was the oi>ening attraction, $250, 
which Mr. Thiese had wagered with Geo. 
Kraus that the initial performance would 
be delayed beyond that date. 



Some time ago Ada Rcban, America's 
great actress, was offered $2,400 weekly 
for a vaudeville tour. Miss Rehan was in- 
clined to accept, but illness caused retire- 
ment to her estate in England, where she 
Is at present. The offer still holds good, 
and if Miss Rehan's health allows in the 
future she may make the venture. 



Richard Pitrot, "the globe trotter," has 
a stenographer and typewriter in his 
office, imported directly from the editorial 
rooms of "Das Programme," the I. A. L. 
paper, in Germany. Mr. Pitrot has been 
much relieved since her appearance. He 
says: ''I say what I want to say in Ger- 
man, and she writes it down in English. 
Fine, sure." 



Merano, a foreign "strong man," wants 
to duplicate over here the present Paris • 
sensation of having an automobile run 
over him on the stage. :- 



Tom Hearn, "the lazy juggler," will be • 
back among us again February 4. He is 
playing the Central Theatre, Dresden, this 
month. J 



In the Boston corresponderice two weeks 
ago in this paper it was stated that Foy 
and Clark's "A Modern Jonah" was "evi- 
dently taken from 'The Pearl and the 
Pumpkin.'" As the Foy and CUirk sketch 
was produced in vaudeville before the 
legitimate piece was presented to the 
public's gaze, the insinuation much dis- 
turbed Mr. Foy, who asks that he be set 
rigiit. 



Ma Crispi, the bright particular hit of 
the initial production of "Mara'zelle 
Champagne" as produced on the Madison 
Sj^uare Roof, and who has been placed un- 
der contract for a term of years by 
Charles B. Dillingham, has been "farmed 
out" to M. S. Bentham for vaudeville ap- 
pearances until such time as Dillingham 
can properly place her with one of his 
musical shows. . . 



A daughter of Chas. Eschert, manager 
of the Atlantic Gardens, was married last 
week to Harold Vincent Brockway. Mr. 
Eschert says that at the same time he 
"pensioned" Mrs. Eschert; or, in other 
words, his wife no longer is required to 
ask for money, she will hereafter receive 
it regularly. "Twenty-one happy years of 
married life," remarked Mr. Eschert, "en- 
titles your wife to a certain independence." 



An act which called at the United Book- 
ing Age.ncy in the St. James Building for 
an engagement was questioned by Phil 
Nash, connected with that office. After 
the conversation Mr. Nash reached over, ^ 
picked up a pad and wrote some figures 
upon it. Handing the piece of paper to the 
artist, Mr. Nash remarked, "That is the 
salary." "Really?" said the artist after 
looking at the number. "1 thought it was 
the commission." 



E. F. Albee, acting for the Keith cir- 
cuit, made a fevered attempt to secure 
Arthur Prince, the ventriloquist, for a 
long time engagement. After discussing 
the vaudeville conditions and the benefit 
to be derived through booking with 
Keith, Mr. Albec said to the Englishman: 
"I'll give you fifty weeks at $760 and lay 
out a route of twenty right away." 
"Never mind the fifty," replied Prince. 
"I'd rather you would give me one week 
at my salary, $1,000." 



The endless discussion as to the origi- 
nality of the "stage upon a stage" scene 
as given in the Karno act, and also in the 
similar sketch produced by Jean Bedini, 
might be settled throufih the fact that in 
1871 at the Karl Theatre, Vienna, Austria, 
a travesty on "Tannehauser" was written 
by Johann Nestroy, with music Ij>- Franz 
von Suppe. As produc<iji- at that time, 
thirty-five years ago, it contained, with a 
few minor differences, the essential char- 
acters and business of the disputed pieces. 
While this has no bearing upon the direct 
question involvcil in the Karno-Bedini 
matter it should settle the priority of 
the idea. 



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VARIETY 



ENGLISH COMBINATION CONFIRMED. 

London, Oct. 18. 

The DeFrece-Barrasford combine, of 
which Variety had the earliest rumors, is 
fully confirmed through statements made 
in Dublin by Frederic W. Mouillot, a 
partner and principal backer of Walter 
DeFrece. Interviewed at the Theatre 
Royal, of which he is managing director, 
Mr. Mouillot said of the new deal: 

''Oh, yes, we intend to make arrange- 
ments. Walter DeFrece and Thomas Bar- 
rasford, of course, know a great deal about 
variety houses and hippodromes. A great 
many houses throughout the country will 
be affected. Among the chief towns con- 
cerned will be Leeds, Liverpool, Brighton, 
Southampton, Margate, Portsmouth, Man- 
chester, London, too, of course. Let me 
say it is not iti combination against any 
special places. It is simply a consolidation 
for the convenience of engaging the 
artists." 



LAUGH WHILE GAMBLING. 

ilo, ye trans-Atlantic vacationers! 
Here's easy monej' for you next summer. 
The Marinelli Agency, in consideration of 
the large percentage of Americans with 
sufficient carelessness about their bank- 
rolls to visit Monte Carlo during their 
travels, has decided to give "Americanized 
vaudeville" during the active term at the 
great European temple of chance. 

Radha has been booked and the remain- 
der of the headliners will be selected from 
among the native acts who happen to be 
caught in the neighborhood of Monte Carlo 
during the period between January and 
April. The Marinelli people do not seek, 
it is explained, to entice acts across from 
here, owing to the short time to be offered. 

Lucerne, Switzerland, where there is 
operated the Casino, is to be run next 
summer between June 15 and the end of 
September under the same plan. 



SONG WRITERS ORGANIZE. 

Not content with the action of the 
Music Publishers' Association in their ef- 
forts to have a federal law passed protect- 
ing popular songs from the phonographs 
and hand organs, the song writers them- 
selves have organized to secure an amend- 
ment to the copyright law. The writers 
and composers allege that they receive no 
royalties or other benefit from the phono- 
graph companies and that the over- 
popularizing of songs through the medium 
of the talking machines tends to cheapen 
their' wares and discourage the sale of 
sheet music. 

Among the writers and composers men- 
tioned as active in the new organization 
are F. A. Mills, Harry Williams, Robert 
Adams, J. Fred Helf, Harry Von Tilzer 
and Theodore Morse. The bill now in 
Washington fathered by the Music Pub- 
lishers' Association is slated to come up 
some time in Deoember. 



AMELIA STONE NEXT. 

The next prima donna to -enter vaude- 
ville's ranks will be Amelia Stone, a Shu- 
bert star, if suitable terras are agreed 
upon. 

Miss Stone thinks favorably of the 
proposition; so favorably, in fact, that 
she has set her figure for the sacrifice of 
her stellar ambitions. Jack Levy, the 
agent, will care for the singer's interests 
if she flops orer. 



HOPKINS' THEATRES UNSOLD. 

:, Variety's Chicago Ofllice, 

79 S. Clark St. -^ 

..■""'■■'■ :"' Oct. 26. 

Col. John D. Hopkins' theatres are still 

on the market, the several offers made 

having been rejected. The price asked is 

said to be too large. Mr. Hopkins in an 

interview confirms the published statement 

in Varietv to the effect that the Shuberts 

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and others have made bids. ''I have for 
some time contemplated relinquishing my 
hold on the theatres," said the Colonel, 
"and several propositions have been made, 
but none tempting enough to me or the 
company of which I am president. The 
Shuberts are good friends of mine and 
they are anxious to secure the houses, 
particularly the one in Memphis, which is 
the finest in the South. I feel that 1 need 
rest, but that is no reason why I should 
sacrifice my interest. It is also probable 
that the directors will change their plans 
about selling altogether, no matter in 
what shape or manner the offers are forth- 
coming. I am in business to make money, 
not for the pleasure there is in it. The 
theatres have always made money and 
the results at the present are very satis- 
factory. We are booked up for the entire 
season." 

When asked whether M. C. Anderson 
put in a bid he quickly remarked, "I 
did not speak with Mr. Anderson about 
the matter, and neither did he approach 
me in a manner that would indicate he 
wanted the houses." 



"BARRING" BfEANS LONG LEGAL 

FIGHT. 

London, Oct. 18. 
The barring clause fight on the seven in- 
junctions granted the London, Shoreditch, 
against the Paragon has reached the first 
stage and is set for an early trial, the court 
saying it was a matter of great importance 
to the music hall profession. It seems 
Marie Lloyd was under contract at the 
London for five weeks at $250 weekly and a 
later week at $325. Ernest Shand was 
signed at $85, the PoluskLs at $100 for 
twelve weeks in different years, and Jessie 
I'reston at $50 weekly. There is every 
prospect of a long, bitter fight on the bar- 
ring clause, which is certainly "in re- 
straint of trade" if anything ever was. 



RICHARDS OVERWHELMED. 

Chris. Richards, the English song and 
dance comedian, is in a quandary. He has 
received so many flattering offers to join 
companies here that he doesn't know which 
to accept. Among those who have put 
out "feelers" for him are Joseph Weber, 
the Shuberts and Alf Hayman, represent- 
ing Charles Frohman. 



NORWORTH'S BUSY WEEK. 

A busy person will be Jack Norworfh 
next week. Owing to the new burlesque in 
"About Town" at the Herald Square The- 
atre having no suitable part for him, Mr. 
Norworth, with Lew Fields' consent, ac- 
cepted vaudeville time and will open at the 
Colonial Monday. 

Late this week Fields discovered he could 
not procure a satisfactory substitute for 
Norworth in the opening and closing acts 
of the piece proper. Norworth will be 
obliged to appear in the play at the Herald 
Square at the opening and close, giving his 
monologue at the Colonial in between. 



INSISTED UPON CANCELLATION 

;•■•:; -,^--.^'. ..:.l CLAUSE. 

The ways of the "ten-cent" circuit are 
sometimes hard to fathom. A recent case 
in point was that of Archer's "Filipino 
Girls," a colored "girl act.**. 

After opening last summer at Hender- 
son's, Coney Island, the act played for the 

Sullivan-Considine-International Theatre 
Company at its houses in Scranton, Pa., 
and Fast 12.')th street, X<»\v York. 

The booking agiMits for the circuit in 
New York Citv assured Mr. Archer that 
his act was exactly suited for their con- 
stituents and pressed him to accept six- 
teen weeks time in tlie West, opening at 
Butte, Mont. Mr. Archer was agreeable, 
and after having it explained that trans- 
portation to the starting point, with a 
round- trip ticket from New Y'ork also at- 
tached, would he provided by the manage- 
ment, he agreed. The car fare, amounting 
to about $180 per person, was to have 
been gradually settled by weekly deduc- 
tions from .salary as the time was played. 

Mr. Archer asked for the contracts and 
upon receipt found that twelve weeks only 
were agreed for, and that a cancellation 
clause had a prominent place in the writ- 
ten instrument. Having heard stories 
floating in from the West that several 
acts playing the Sullivan-Considine circuit 
had been threatened with an abrupt clos- 
ing after opening at Butte or upon reach- 
ing Seattle unless a reduction in the price 
was acceded to, Mr. Archer asked that in 
all fairness, as he carried six people and 
the New York agents knew his act from 
personal observation, the cancellation 
clause be stricken out in his contract, and 
to avoid error Archer drew a line through 
the objectionable sentence himself. 

He was told that new contracts would 
be sent for. In a few days instead Archer 
received the information that the circuit 
did not play colored acts. 

As the members of his troupe had not 
disguised their natural shade r'hen playing 
the Eastern time for the same circuit, and 
as Mr. Archer, who came into personal 
contact with the agents, can not be mis- 
taken for a white person, he is conjecturing 
what would have happened to his act 
2,000 or more miles away from home had 
he sent it out with the cancellation clause 
intact. ' 



EARL'S COURT BIG WHEEL DOWN. 

London, Oct. 18. 
The famous big wheel has been taken 
down at Earl's Court, after running auc- 
cessfuUy twelve 3'ears. Once upon a time 
it "stuck" and the folk who stayed up in 
the sky all night were each handed a sola- 
tium of $125 next day to "square" suits for 
heavier damages. The huge project "Paris 
in London" in the court has fallen through. 
It would have involved a 99-year lease at 
$275,000 yearly, and the construction of a 
theatre, cafe, shops and many duplications 
of the giddy features of "Gay Paree." 



WELCH A STAR AGAIN. 

Joe Welch signed a contract with Stair 
& Havlin for a starring tour under the di- 
rection of the firm of popular-price pro- 
ducers. Welch has accepted a new play 
and will be seen in it immediately after 
the holidays. By the terms of his con- 
tract he is to receive fifty per cent of the 
profits in addition to a weekly talary. 



INJUNCTIONS TO KEEP THEATRE 
';: OPEN. 

VATieiy'a Chicago OHiie, 
; 78 S. Dark St. 

■■'•■' Oct. 26. ■■■- 

The Masonic Temple Roof Theatre will 
not be granted - a license. This decision 
has been in effect since the Iroquois 
catastrophe and it is said that no power 
can induce the city to allow the place 
to open as a theatre. In view of thi<< 
fact several attempts have been made to 
open the place; the newest effort coming 
from an astute person here who, backed 
by political influence, huA devised a 
scheme by which he can operate the place 
without a permit. 

He proposes to frustrate any movement 
made *by the city authorities thniugh 
keeping himself busy serving injunctions 
against the interference of the authorities, 
and he had the temerity to say that by 
the time the litigations were settled the 
season would be over. 

It is said that the Western Vaudeville 
Association was asked to furnish the acts, 
but turned down the proposition, refusing 
to have anything to do with it rather than 
antagonize the rigid building commis- 
sioner and many others. 



LONDON MANAGER SUES VARIETY. 

Through papers served this week in 
New Y'ork it was learne(l that Alfred 
Butt, manager of the Palace in London, 
has sued Variety and Variety's London 
representative, C. C. Bartram, for libel. 
The action, commenced in the English 
courts, asks damages without the amount 
claimed being named. The English jury 
is supposed to give that portion of the 
proceedings all attention. 

Mr. Butt objects to a paragraph 
printed September 1 last in Mr. Bartram's 
column. The paragraph complained of is 
here reproduced: 

"Following the shift at the Oxford ct)me 
indefinite rumors of a change in Palace 
management. No hint of this has reached 
the London papers, but we hear from pri- 
vate sources that Manager Pickering of 
the Tivoli, Cape Town, will be the man 
to assume the guiding reins in the fall. 
One would think the position of the pres- 
ent incumbent rather strong, as he mar- 
ried the daughter of Count Hollender, the 
lately deceased chairman of the Palace 
directorate, who left nearly half a million 
dollars. Perhaps this has caused a slack- 
ening of ambition and will account for the 
rumored retirement. Since manager he 
has been quite persistent with agents 
about percentage splitting, etc." 



LASKY & ROLFE BRANCHING. 

Lasky, Rolfe & Co. have entered into 
an arrangement with Benjamin Chapin, 
author of "Lincoln," by which they will 
present in vauderille Mr. Chapin, with 
a cast of ten people, in a condensed ver- 
sion of the piece, carrying special scenery 
and effects. 

Jesse Lasky, of the firm, sails November 
20 for London to establish a branch office 
in the English metropolis. It is the in- 
tention to reproduce all their successful 
American acts in Europe and to dig up 
foreign talent. 



Hamilton Hill, the Australian baritone, 
who has just arrived in town to begin a 
season's tour on the Keith circuit, opens 
in Paterson on Monday next. 



VARIETY 







BUT THEY WON'T FALI< 



DOUBTFUL ABOUT ACADEMY. 

Joseph Hart has not yet decided whether 
he will "go in" with William A. Brady in 
the contemplated Sunday night concerts 
at the Academy of Music. He fears that 
he will have some difficulty in securing 
suitable acts, as the Academy would be 
in close competition with the Union Square 
and the Dewey, one of which is booked by 
the United Agency and the other by Wil- 
liam Morris. 



SECOND FOURTEENTH ST. MUSEUM. 

It is reported in the vicinity of Four- 
teenth street that the piece of property 
known as "The New Alhambra" on the 
Tammany Hall thoroughfare has been pur- 
chased and will be razed to admit of a 
new building being erected for a dime 
museum. 

The only legitimate enterprise of that 
description in the city at present is Geo. 
Ruber's, farther up the same street. 



McCALE WILL LEAVE BURLESQUE. 

I^rry McCalc, who is re.>^ponsible for 
the bulk of the comedy in the burlesque 
numbers used by Fred Irwin's "Majesties," 
i« planning an invasion of straight vaude- 
ville, with a sketch called "An Irish Ad- 
miral,** by Aaron HofTnian. Mr. McCale 
will try out the piece the coming sum- 
mer and if it succeeds will go into vaude- 
ville with it, giving up burlesque. 



TOLEDO'S NEW THEATRE. 

Toledo, Oct. 26. 

From a well-informed source it is 
learned that George Ketchara has pur- 
chased a site in the downtown section 
of the city and will erect a theatre to be 
devoted to legitimate attractions. It will 
open by September, '07. 

At present the only legitimate house in 
town is the Arcade, playing Shubert 
Bros.* shows. 



' BURNED THEATRE'S BOOKING 
TRANSFERRED. 

Altoona, Pa., Oct. 26. 
The New Mishler Theatre was almost 
entirely destroyed by fire late last w^ek. 
The blaze started in a furniture store 
adjoining the playhouse and caused a loss 
of half a million dollars before it was 
checked. The affected property is in the 
centre of the town's business district. 
The walls are still standing and it is be- 
lievod that Mr. Mishler will rebuild the 
houHo. Meanwhile all the bookings for the 
Mishler Theatre have been transferred to 
the Eleventh Avenue Opera House. f 



LA BELLE DAIZY. 

The artistic frontispiece of this week's 
Variety is a photograph of La Belle Daizy 
(Domino Rouge), especially jmsed by the 
widely known photograf)her, Bassano, of 
London, for reproduction in th'i^ paper. 



WILLS HAS STANDING OFFER. 

Nat Wills is being eagerly sought by the 
booking agents for a return to vaudeville, 
but his present starring vehicle is so 
successful that there is little possibility 
of his acceptance. The Keith Agency has' 
offered to lay out for him a tour at an 
alluring figure and Percy Williams has 
made him a standing offer to go the Keith 
people $100 a week better, regardless of 
what the Keith figure may be. 



MORE FOR BROOKLYN. 

Toward the far-off end of Brooklyn there 
will be completed by next season a the- 
atre which will play vaudeville. It will 
be located at the junction formed by 
Broadway, Ralph avenue and Quincy 
street. 

The capacity will be 2,000, and Rhein- 
hardt. Stern & Co. are nominally listed as 
the builders, although theatrical interests 
are probably secreted behind that title. 



^ OH, SAY NOT SO. 

There is a persistent rumor working its 
way up and down the big thoroughfare 
that Wilson & Flynn, the Knickerbocker 
Theatre building firm, are about to sepa- 
rate. Details are lacking. Both members 
of the combination refu.se confirmation or 
denial, hut Mr. Flynn in the early hours 
of the morning has been observed in the 
performance of clearing up bis roUtop 
desk. 



SATISFIED WITH HARLEIL 

The Keith-Proctor people assert that 
they are very well satisfied with the 
business of the current week at the Har- 
lem Opera House. They say that the sub- 
scription list for seats for the season ia 
rapidly assuming robust proportions. 

Beginning on Monday seats are to be 
reserved at the Fifth Avenue Theatre for 
"before and after 6 P. M." They may be 
ordered a fortnight in advance. The first 
six rows of seats in the orchestra have 
had the admission price to them raised to 
one dollar. 



ANOTHER MORRIS BILL AT CO- 
LUMBUS. 

Ck)Iumbus, Oct. 26. 

The Morris vaudeville at the Shubert 
Theatre so far this week has won the 
city's approval. Attendance has been 
large. , 

Next week Charmion, Joe Welch, Helen 
Gerard and Kronemann Brothers are 
among the numbers which will play under 
the Morris direction in the same theatre. 



Mabel Simpson, daughter of Clara Simp- 
son, a well-known variety actress of 
former days, made a successful debut at 
the American Theatre last Sunday night. 
Miss Simpson is young and a protege of 
Ted Marks. Milt Wood taught her how 
to dance. 



VARISTT 



HYMAN BARS A CRITIC 

Cape Town, 8. A., Sept. 22. • 

In to-day'a isauc of the ''South American 
Newt)" is made public the unfriendly rela- 
tions existing between that paper and the 
Tivoli Theatre. 

The review of the Tivoli bill this week, 
probably written by "Touchstone," dis- 
pleased the management through the fol- 
lowing paragraph, and by the critic hay- 
ing mentioned that one act "lacked re- 
finement in places": 

"The programme last night was far too 
long, and the management would act in 
its own interests in eliminating the sec- 
ond turn altogether, condensing the act 
of the O'Gorman Brothers, and employing 
the pruning knife on the sketch before 
the interval. Thus reduced the entertain- 
"merit may fiiiid favor with the public." - 

The paper answers with the following, 
also adding that the "reflnement" ob- 
jected to did not apply to the dialogue or 
scenes : 

**In consequence of certain views ex- 
pressed in the South African News on 
Thursday last ronoeming the new com- 
pany which made its debut at the Tivoli 
on the previous evening, Mr. A. C. Hyman, 
the manager of the theatre, called at the 
Kews office on the following day and re- 
quested the return of the press ticket. 
Afterward Mr. Hyman suggested that the 
writer of the criticism should not attend 
the theatre to deal with future perform- 
ances. Under these circumstances no fur- 
ther reference will be made in this paper 
either to the theatre or the artists ap- 
pearing at it, and it need scarcely be 
added that the News sees no reason for 
retracting its criticism.' 



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UTTLE ROCK'S THIRD. 

Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 26. 

A Mr. Hopkins, of Joplin, Mo., has se- 
cured the building formerly occupied by 
the Thompson Lithograph and Printing 
Co., at 113 West Second street, and will 
convert it into a vauueville theatre. It 
will be one of a string of theatres be in- 
tends establishing in the South. 

Two shows a day will be given; admis- 
sion 10, 20 and 30 cents. This will give 
Little Rock three theatres, two vaudeville 
and one legitimate. 



PRINCE SAILS. 

Arthur Prince, the ventriloquist, with 
his wife, Ida Rene, sailed for England 
lujst Tuesday. Mr. Prince may return next 
spring if time is arranged for a year's stay. 

The Morris office is looked to for con- 
tracts by Mr. Prince, although if the Keith 
office concludes to pay the ventriloquist his 
weekly salary of $1,000 there will be no 
objection to that time. 



SAGINAW REMAINS A VAUDEVILLE 

TOWN. 
Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 26. 

The report that the Jeffers Theatre 
here would give up vaudeville is ground- 
less; also the rumors that the vaudeville 
policy would be cheapened or the house 
turned over to a buresque wheel. 

Managers Newton and Sargent declare 
positively that the Jeffers will play vaude- 
ville first, last and all the time. Bookings 
will be furnished by the Western Vaude- 
ville Association of Chicago. 



REFUSED TO PLAT OPPOSITIOir. 

Carleton Macy and Maud Hall were 
notified to report for duty at Hyde k 
Behman's, Brooklyn, this week, but de- 
clined to do so, as they are booked with 
Percy Williams to play later on at the 
Orpheum. As a consequence they were 
switched to the Fifth Avenue. 



COURT DISMISSES "SUNDAY** 
COMPLAINTS. 

Ben Hurtig, William Masaud and several 
Harlem theatrical managers were up before 
Magistrate Sweetser in the Harlem Police 
Court Tuesday this week on a postponed 
hearing of the summons issued against 
them two weeks ago for violation of the 
Sunday law. All were discharged. 
The court declared that nothing^ h"ad~ 
been adduced in the evidence connecting 
the defendants with any violation. At 
the same time Magistrate Sweetser de- 
clared that personally he was opposed to 
the giving of Sunday concerts, as against 
the welfare both of the public and the 
artists. 

Victor Williams of the Colonial Theatre 
was also discharged in the West Side 
Police Court. 



KENDALL'S "TALK" TO ALBEB. 

A while ago Ezra Kendall signified a 
willingness to return to vaudeville if the 
monetary inducement was big enough. 
The United Booking Agency sent for the 
comedian and he was ushered into the 
presence of E. F. Albee and his satellites. 
The general manager for the Keith circuit 
said in effect: "Mr. Kendall— ahem — we 
are prepared to offer you a continuous 
route at — ahem — so and so much. Here it 
is and — er — ahem — money talks. You can 
take it or leave it." Kendall listened at- 
tentively and replied quickly: "If you 
think money talks, tack it on a 'flat,' 
shove it out in *one* and let it try. Good 
day, gentlemen." 



"NICOLETS" BECOMING DIGNIFIED. 

J. Austin Fynes* Nicolet theatres are 
flourishing and growing, perhaps beyond 
the busy founder's original hopes. In New 
Haven his newly dedicated palace of the 
nimble nickel has been turning people 
away since its opening, a fortnight ago. 

The business has reached the dignity 
and importance of a regular "show shop." 
Mr. Fynes has issued season tickets of 
admission to any of his '*Nicolets," wher- 
ever located. 

Charles H. Day, former press agent for 
Bamum & Bailey, has been appointed in 
a similar capacity for the New Haven 
"Nicolet," and William Black, who not 
long ago managed Mrs. Langtry, is doing 
the press work for Fynes' place in Jersey 

aty. 



Apollo, an athlete, arrived here this 
week from Paris. He came over on apecu- 
latkm. 



LAFAYETTE SAYS "PSHAW." 

The report that "The Great Lafayette" 
had attempted to prevent the McLeod 
Sisters from securing employment else- 
where after leaving his company was 
Inugbed at by the magician. 

"I didn't know the girls under that 
name," said Lafayette. "They were booked 
to me as *The Daileys.' They left the 
company and I didn't care where they 
went or who they went witk. J have 
something else to do." 



AFRAID OF MILLIE DE LEON. 

'The Girl in Blue" (Millie DeLeon) is 
playing as the "extra attraction" at the 
London Theatre on the Boweiy this week, 
having been added to the "Star Show 
Girls" now at the Jas. H. Curtin house. 

Miss DeLeon is known as "the limit" 
in burlesque and has been so far this sea- 
son the feature of Hurtig & Seamen's 
"Trans-Atlantic Burlesquers." In that 
capacity she played with her show at the 
Murray Hill Theatre recently. From ap- 
pearances it would seem that Messrs. Hur- 
tig & Seamon have more regard for their 
own constituents in the newly converted 
music hall on West 125th street. 

Anyway, the firm which owns the show 
and theatre decided that the "Girl in 
Blue" might prove too warm for Harlem 
and would not allow her to play uptown 
this week with the company. No such 
compunction existed at the time of the 
Murray Hill engagement, where Miss De 
Leon cut up capers with a freedom sug- 
gesting instructions to do her utmost to 
attract a crowd. 

The London, a Western Wheel theatre, 
grabbed Miss DeLeon for the week upon 
hearing she was disengaged, and the spec- 
tacle is presented of an Eastern Wheel 
attraction helping along the opposition 
through the fear of her managers having 
their Harlem acquaintances learn the 
exact nature of the burlesque attraction 
the Hurtig A Seamon show carries. 



HARD WORK HOLDING QUARTETS. 

The Jermond and Jacobs burlesque show 
("New York Stars"), playing Eastern 
Wheel time, appears to have some diffi- 
culty keeping itself provided with sweet 
singers. They started out with the Pan- 
American Four, which "got off" at Hurtig 
& Seamon's. They were succeeded by the 
Savoy Quartet, which arrived back in town 
this week, having closed its engagement 
the Saturday night before. 



GOING AROUND THE WORLD. 

Sailing from New York in March, Fred 
Niblo and Josephine Cohan (Mrs. Niblo) 
will make a tour of the world, playing 
engagements en route. 

Mr. Niblo will open at the Palace in 
London on April 1 for a stay of twelve 
weeks, thence sailing for Sbuth Africa on 
June 15. The couple will visit Australia, 
New Zealand, China, Japan and other far- 
distant countries before seeing this town 
again. ' 



MISS RITCHIE'S LARGE DEMANDS. 

Whether Adele Ritchie, star of the 
"Social Whirl," leaves that piece to re- 
enter vaudeville depends largely upon an 
agreement being reached between the 
diminutive miss and the managers on the 
salary to be received by her. 

Miss Ritchie asks $1,250 for each week 
she works in the continuous. That is a 
high flgure think the managers who may 
book her. An adjustment will likely be 
made, when Miss Ritchie will once more 
do "two-a-day." 



MURPHY HAS la WEEKS. 

Joseph Murphy is conflned to his bed 
at the Broadway Central Hotel with a 
severe cold. As soon as he recovers Mur- 
phy will play a twelve weeks tour in 
vaudeville with a condensed version of 
his phenomenally suocessful Irish drama 
"Kenpy Gow." 



FINE FOR JOHN AYRSSI 

Frequenters of the Keith & Proctor 
houses have lately noted with visible 
pleasure the constant presence at one or 
another of these theatres of John Ayres, 
the bluff but good-hearted former superin- 
tendent of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, 
under Mr. Fynes' regime. Mr. Ayres seems 
to be acting as a sort of general inspector 
of the K. & P. theatres— a position for 
which he is excellently fitted, both by 
experience and temperament. 

His appointment is credited to the influ- 
ence of J. Austin Fynes, whose loyalty to 
his followers has long been well-known. 
Ayres followed Mr. Fynes from Keith to 
Proctor nine years ago. His return to 
the amalgamated K. & P. forces is said 
to have been suggested by Mr. Keith 

himself. -T:^^:==r-v-rr . — ~:^ 

All the "Fynes' adherents'* seem to 
have fallen into pleasant places. Phil 
Nash, John T. Fynes, Mr. Ayres, Harry 
Mundorf, J. Paige Smith, Phil Mindil, Joe 
Reilly, Walter Hill and a dozen others 
come under this category. They are all 
well placed. 



"PASTOR'S BALL," JAN. ag. 

The next annual ball of the employees 
of Tony Pastor's Theatre will occui on 
January 29 (Tuesday) after eleven p. m. 
at Tammany Hall. 

It is "the" event of the variety season 
and the usual contests will take place. A 
prize will be offered fer the first time at 
the coming ball for the winner of team 
dancing, men only. 

At the last affair Ida May Chadwick, 
of the Chadwick trio, won the buck danc- 
ing contest; Phil Cook, of Cook and Syl- 
via, was first among the wooden shoe con- 
tingent, and Mike Bernard smothered a 
youth from Boston who thought he could 
play "ragtime" on the piano. 



MISS LOFTUS' ROUTE FIXED. 

Cecilia (Cissy) Loftus opens in Pitts- 
burg, playing there the first of her six ' 
weeks tour of the houses booked by the 
United Agency. 

Her offering will be a one-act play en- 
titled "His Clhild," employing seven people. 
It was originally presented in London at 
the Waldorf Theatre. It is intended to 
use the playlet as a curtain raiser to the 
new W>ber production when it opens here. 
Later on in the new Weber piece Miss 
Loftus will do her imitations. 



TOO MUCH "EXPLANATION." 

Jean Bedini has struck another snag in 
his efforts to justify his position in the 
production of his act representing a stage 
upon a stage. If he produces here the 
scene from the "Jersey Lily" he will be 
enjoined by Edmund Gerson, who controls 
the American rights to "I>es Quarte Filles 
Aymon," from which the "Jersey Lily" 
was adopted. Gerson has already notified 
Bedini to this effect. 



GRANT RESTRICTS SONG. 
Sydney Grant, the monologist, has writ- 
ten a song for his own use entitled 
"Broadway." Mr. Grant says it will not 
be published, as he will confine the singing 
of it to his own efforts, following the 
English style of controlling a number 
exclusively. 



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BROOKLYN MIinSTBRS DBBATIirO. 

Across the bridge the Ministers' Asso- 
dation met in conclave on last Tuesday 
and considered the question whether the 
Brooklyn saloons or theatres should be 
open on Sundays. No decision was 
reached. It was unanimously agreed, 
however, between the coated flock that if 
the wicked people in the Baby Borough 
would not come to church on that lonely 
day in the week an attempt would be 
made to stop all legitimate enjoyment. 

At the Sunday concerts last week 
"straight" shows were given. Unless a 
divorce suit among church members is 
started to give the ministers something to 
talk about the agitation over theatrical 
performances on Sundays may grow to 
serious proportions. 



OPPOSITION GOOD FOR CINCINNATI. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 26. 

Vaudeville opposition has proven a boon 
to this town in more ways than even the 
bettering of the vaudeville Cincinnati had 
grown accustomed to. 

When the shows are not playing the 
attaches of the theatre idle the time away 
by finding some cause for complaint 
against the opposition. The Columbia last 
week obtained special permission from 
the Mayor to allow a two-sheet with hand- 
cuffs on it to be placed at Fifth and Wal- 
nut streets. The Olympic protested and 
secured the Mayor's promise to have il 
removed last Saturday, which was done. 

Standing room in this city is not al- 
lowed, and this week at the Columbia 
seats are being sold on the stage to see 
Harry Houdini's "The Handcuff King*' per- 
formance. About 300 are disposed of in 
that way for fifty cents each. 

Charles Doran is now publicity promoter 
for the Columbia at a large salary. He 
was offered more to accept the same posi- 
tion with the New York Hippodrome, but 
his interests here would not allow of the 
acceptance. 



KING FU COMING. 

The freak midget, "King Fu," may come 
over to this country next spring, appear- 
ing in the dime museums and fairs. The 
"King" is about fifty years of age now 
and created considerable talk in Austria 
some years ago by deceiving the Emperor 
Joseph. 

The freak was on exhibition in Vienna 
and the Emperor expressed a desire to see 
him. The midget was enveloped in mys- 
tery, but it was not suspected that the 
sovereign would not detect the trick. 

To the surprise of the attendants, Jo- 
seph, upon passing out of the room where 
the "King" was being shown, remarked, 
"It is the most wonderful automaton I 
have ever seen." 

Instead of the enormous crowds which 
the Rosenfeld Brothers who managed the 
exhibition thought would follow the Em- 
peror's visit, a police officer dropped in the 
next morning to leave word that twenty- 
four hours was the time limit for the whole 
outfit to leave the city for having prac- 
ticed a deception upon the monarch. 



Harry Cushman will open the new Lib- 
erty Theatre at Merlden, Conn., as a Fam> 
ily Theatre next Monday. The Three Kee- 
ley Brothers, Slater and Williams, Dor- 
othy Walters, The Two Jagers and the 
Musical Westons are items on the openinp; 
bills. Walter J. Plimmer is booking for 
tha new house. 



ARTI STS' FO RUM 

' " , , , * 

CoolIiM your letters to 100 words and writo oa ono side of popor onlj* : 
AnonyiiMMis comoiuolcatlons will not bo printed. Nobm of writer mutt bo otgaoi mt§ «M 
bo beld In strict coafldonco. If doslrod. 



Portsmouthi 0., Oct. 20. , 
Editor Variety: 

Recently under "New Acts" I read a 
review of Nellie McCoy at Pastor's. In 
that article Mr. Rush stated Miss McCoy 
was not yet seventeen years of age and 
was appearing for the first time. Every- 
one knows or should know who Nellie 
McCoy, formerly of the McCoy Sisters, is. 
That was not her first appearance and 
she is over seventeen. 

8. M. AhramM. 

(The young miss referred to as appear- 
ing at Pastor** did lu^lm one perform- 
ance only, "trying out.'* Her name is 
Nellie McCoy and she is not seventeen 
years of age. The similarity of name con- 
fused Mr. Abrams. — Ed.) 



Louisville, Ky., Oct. 23. 
Eklitor Variety: 

In reply to M. C. Berg, of the Cycling 
Zanoras, wish to say that he is misin- 
formed as to the time I built ladder for 
my act. It was last season, while playing 
at Miner's Bowery Theatre, instead of dur- 
ing the summer months, and what's more, 
I did not see the Zanoras at Keith's Union 
Square. I was compelled to omit the 
ladder trick from the act, as I was under 
a long contract with Mr. Miner, to play 
comedy parts. 

Regarding the unicycle, I rode that be- 
fore Berg thought of going in the busi- 
ness. I have the money that says I can 
beat Berg riding on the single wheel. 

Joe Barton. 



Olympic Theatre, 
Cincinnati, 0., Oct. 22. 
Editor Variety: 

The stories emanating through some 
unknown source regarding the trouble be- 
tween the management of the Olympic 
Theatre and the local press is without the 
least foundation. Knowing the reliability 
of your paper and its standing in theat- 
rical circles I feel certain that you would 
not countenance any misrepresentations 
if you were aware they were bein^ made. 
There was a slight diflference betwoen ono 
of our treasurers and a newspaprr re- 
porter, and when the facts liecamo knnuii 
the man was promptly disehaifrtMl. The 
relations between the press and Ihf 
Olympic manapenjont are of tlie ploa>ant 
est kind and our treatment by the news 
papers has been all that oouhl he do 
sired. Such matter printed in a paper 
of the standing? of Variety tends to in 
jure us with artists. We have played to 
capacity ever since we opened antl this 
has caused the people <vho have had the 
exclusive vaudeville business in this city 
for years to sit up and take notice. 

Hoping you will look into the matter 
and if we are in the right give us our 
just dues. Ed. H. Anthony, 

Press Representative. 



CopenhagcDj Denmark, Circus Variete, 
^ i^ Oct. 16, 1900. 

Editor Variety: 

We write to let you know where we are. 
There are some other American acts here 
with us: Hooker and Davis, Mason and 
Forbes and Caswell and Arnold. We get 
Variety every week. We expect to be 
back in America next summer. Stockholm 
Svea Theater in November. 

Kelly and A»hhy. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 25. 

Editor Variet jx _. 

I notice in your last issue where one 
Billy Noble signs himself and claims the 
title of "The Dixie Boy." I would like to 
know where this Noble hails from. I can 
show programmes from Pastor's nine 
years back where I was billed as "The 
Dixie Boy." If Mr. Noble has such a repu- 
tation as he claims, it is peculiar. I 
never heard of him. I trust he will be 
original and not try to infringe on my 
trademark. Harry Hatfield. 



Editor Variety: 

Oct. 23. 
In your last issue under "Western 
Notes" it said that Sam Soda and Ida 
Gladstone were paid oflf after four weeks 
trial by Mr. Frozin, the road manager, 
This is untrue, as the letters I showed 
you proved that Wm. S. Clark, the owner 
of "Jersey Lilies" Company, requested us 
to remain; also his other letter stating 
that the notice was untrue and his en- 
dorsement of our acts, and stating we 
could have remained with his show the 
entire season. 

Ham Soda, 
Ida Gladstone. 



Sheboygan, Wis., Oct. 20. 
Kditor Variety: 

I hope that I will not be accused of 
tiyin;: to "make a play" for managerial 
f'.vor if I iiidor.se the sentiments of Louie 
Haiie u'lently expressed in the columns 
« I viiur paper, (load acts in the East 
licit are afraid to venture away from 
^>eA Noik can mit realize that Western 
to M^ itr' new, moth-ni. perfectly equipped 
\ Tilevi'le houses (not "ten cent" store 
-lu'si that |)hiy first-elass acts and are 
willini; to |»ay ;jood salaries to right peo- 
|i'>'. I'< v example, there is the Unique The- 
an-" at Shel)o\;ran. under the direction of 
Arliiur I.aiie, wlio conducts his house on as 
hi<ili a plane as any Keith theatre. Here 
you will find large, airy, warm dressing 
rooms that are scruhbed and cleaned daily. 
A smokinpj room for artists and a green 
room with "cozy corners," easy chairs, 
magazines, games, etc. Truly it is a 
golden age for the variety artist when 
so-called "tanks" have vaudeville thea- 
tres like this. Ijon Wilton. 



Louis Wilson Hallet, the child imper- 
sonator, may leave for his home — 
England — to-day. Offers were received by 
him here for the legitimate stage; also 
from the Keith office, but if a favorable 
reply to a cable Mr. Hallet sent Is re- 
turned he wiU immediately leave. 



Ethel Trevor, who played the Baltimore 
Girl in "The Prince of Pilsen Girls," is 
about to start out on her own account. 
She has taken unto herself two young 
men, to wit, one Werner and one Norton, 
and will presently put forth a singing 
sketch. 



DAZIE BEFORE THE KING. ^ 

Mile. Dazie (Le Domino Rouge) be- 
gins rehearsals this week at Hammer- 
stein's Manhattan Grand Opera House, 
where she is to be the premiere dan- 
eeuse. The graceful little dancer while 
in London appejired by command before 
the King at Sandringham and at a lawn 
fete given by the Duchess of Armonde. 

"It is a signal honor for any artist 
playing In London to receive a 'royal 
command,* and I was very much pleased 
and flattered by the invitation. 

*Tt was a wondrous boon for an Ameri- 
can artiste. *By royal command* wa« 
heard all over the theatre. The others 
on the program, the house staff and even 
the stage hands, became suddenly alive. 
I was the recipient of so many new at- 
tentions and courtesies on every hand 
tliat I was amused. ^^^-^---^=^-^^:^^^^-=:^^:=:: 



"My appearance at Sandringham was 
in the afternoon and that morning at 
least one hundred men set about to move 
my mirrors and paraphernalia to the 
King*s palace. His Majesty has a tiny 
stage in his wondrous conservatory which 
affords every facility of a modern fully 
equipped playhouse. 

**I was nervous when the music started, 
but as the distinguished patronesses 
showered me with flowers I soon regained 
my composure. At the end of the dance 
my heart almost stopped beating as I 
thought I had failed to please. Not a 
sound was heard. But as the curtain again 
parted the demonstration I saw through 
the holes in my mask reassured me. The 
room before me was a ma si of waving 
'kerchiefs and silken fans being patted 
upon the palms of jeweled hands. It was 
their way of bestowing the mark of their 
approval. 

"Alfred Butt, director of the Palace 
Theatre, who personally superintended 
this special appearance, presented me to 
His Majesty, who was most kind. He 
said there were two reasons he had for 
summoning me to Sandringham. The one 
was my dancing, which coupled with my 
mask had aroused his curiosity. The other 
reason was, as he said, my bravery in sav- 
ing the boys' lives from drowning in Hyde 
Pferk. '^Tiff 

"I thanked him, but felt guilty. I did 
not tell him the latter was the work of 
the fertile American press agent." 



"TRIED our* JERSEY QTY. 

Last week, in order that he might have 
a line on the possibilities for vaudeville 
in Jersey CSty, Ben Boyle of the Boyle 
Agency put on his rubber shoes, engaged 
six acts and strolled into the People's 
Palace on Jersey City Heights for threes 
performances, Friday night, Saturday 
afternoon and evening. 

The playhouse is concealed in the 
premises occupied by a Y. M. C. A. build- 
ing and Dr. Scudder's church. Mr. Boyle 
gave his shows and returned to New York 
more quietly even than he had left. He 
sums up the experience with the remark 
"Jersey may be a nice place, but- 



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At Great Falls, Mont., \i;here the Musi- 
cal Keltons have a ranch, the obliging 
story delayed long enough recently in its 
travels to leave u baby girl. 



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M. S. l^MiOiarn is endeavoring to launch 
Knutf Kri' Uson, former star of "Ole 
Oleaop," Ji» ft vaudeville monologfi^. 



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NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 

Arnold Daly, Fifth Avenue. 

Master Gabriel, Harlem Opera House. 

Jack Norworth (Reappearance) Colonial. 

Corbley and Conley, Pastor's. 

Murphy and Palmer, Pastor's. 

Prof. Dodd and Dog, Gotham, Brooklyn. 

Earl and Curtis, Family. ^ 



[mew ACTS or THE WEEK) 

Commencing with the next issue, VARIETY will give in this department the 
time and stage space of each new act listed. '■'''■■'■■;•■■[■■''■''■■■.'■'''■'' ■■^^ ''.'c-. ':''<'■-' ' 

Correspondents are directed to notice "Morris Cronin" this week for style, 
which is to be followed hereafter. Timing must be accurate, and if act closes in 
"one** mention to be made. ^ 



Kamo's Comedy Company. 
''A Night in a London Club." 
Brookljm Orpheum. 

This last of the Kamo productions un- 
doubtedly loses much from the unfamil- 
iarity of American audiences with the 
phase of English life it aims more or less 
accurately to reflect. Nevertheless there 
is enough of its rougher humor that is 
sufficiently cosmopolitan to make the of- 
fering entertaining on this side. It is 
only the subtleties of the sketch's satire 
that soar over our heads. Billie Reeves is 
back in his old specialty, playing in panto- 
mime the role of a "grouchy drunk." The 
comedy for the most part is provided by 
the use of a weak, anaemic and very much 
henpecked husband (George Wflch), who 
acts as the foil upon whom the bibulous 
Reeves vents his drunken spleen. 

Rush. 



work. The sketch carries a special drop 
showing the landing place at Ellis Island 
and is given entirely in "one." It will em- 
phatically do. Rush. 



Rooney and Bent. 
"The Busy BeU-Boy." 
Alhambra. 

A little more sketch structure than 
shown in the old ofTering would lead one 
to suspect that Pat Rooney seeks to get 
away from the straight dancing specialty 
with which he has done so much. "The 
Busy Bell-Boy" shows him, aside from his 
unique dancing ability, as a comedian of 
real promise. There is not a "dead" mo- 
ment in the ofTering, and if the reception 
given him at the Alhambra Monday night 
may be accepted as a standard of judg- 
ment, vaudeville theatre-goers are very 
much inclined to accept him as something 
more than a dancer. The pair immediately 
preceded The Fays and the audience de- 
manded more and more of them until 
there must have been dire mutterings in 
John Fay's Van Dyck. Rooney does rather 
less dancing than formerly, but what 
he did was in his best form. Miss Bent 
has improved immensely and showed the 
same chic dressing. 

Rush. 



Lester and Acker. 
"The Little Immigrant." 
Hyde & Behman's. 

A distinct novelty in the two man 
talking act class. Will Lester has worked 
up a real character creation in his picture 
of the very much frightened alien passing 
through the terrifying ordeal of Ellis 
Island. There are places in the early 
part where the talk lags, but all the 
defects are swallowed up in delight at 
the pathetic picture of the outcast German 
boy, drawn as it is with striking fidelity 
to the type. Lester keeps to the middle 
path, leaning neither to the side of super- 
sentimentality nor the other extreme of 
rough comedy. The sketch approaches the 
latter at times and both men will have 
to guard themselves lest they sacrifice the 
real appeal of their characterizations to 
the mistaken idea that laughs of the upper 
house fix the standard of judgment. 
Giarles H. Acker, as a gruff but sympa- 
thetic porter, contributes a good bit of 



Florence and Charles Gregson. 
"Les Chef d'Oeuvres Animes." 
Pastor's. ; . 

Once safely over the shock of the title 
you conclude that the Gregsons appear=^ 
ing at Pastor's this week have a very 
pretty act. The setting is a novelty, al- 
though the idea of a living person step- 
ping out of a picture frame has been done 
before. In this case, however, the stage rep- 
resent:^ an artist's studio, with three frames 
in the background. Draperies hang over the 
pictures and when rolled back paintings on 
transparent tapestry are shown. The dra- 
peries are rolled back for the second time 
when either of the Gregsons or both stand 
in the frame in the same attitude and dress 
an the originals in the paintings. Miss 
Gregson has had the title of "Dainty" 
attached to her name and she is deserving 
of it. A handsome girl understanding how 
to dress and wear her clothes, with per- 
sonality, the young woman captured the 
house from her opening song, which 
should have 'had two verses otriy. There 
were a few hitches in the handling of the 
"props" on Tuesday evening, and there 
were also some minor "defects. An im- 
provement would be had by the use or 
velour curtains, to be raised up diagon- 
ally. Mr. Gregson might be costumed 
more becomingly in both characters and 
still be faithful to the portraits. With the 
singing and dancing the act pleases easily. 

Sime. 



Morris Cronin. 
Club Juggling. 
13 Mins.; Full Stage. 
Fifth Avenue. 

After a long absence Morris Cronin with 
an established reputation as expert club 
swinger and juggler returns to his native 
land with four assistants and an elaborate 
"layout" for his act. The assistants are 
similarly dressed in comedy makeup, while 
Cronin works in evening clothes. . Humor 
is derived from the numerous exits and 
entrances. Mr. Cronin, who remains on 
the stage the major portion of the time, 
often throws a club at the wings. One of 
the men suddenly steps into view and 
catches it. All the helpers juggle and there 
is some team work. Nothing new, outside 
this novelty of method, is shown. The 
juggling itself gains no especial distinc- 
tion. The act as a whole entertains and 
takes the lead in its class for efTective 
setting. Sime. 



Sydney Kingdon Ayres. 
"The Cowboy King.»» 
Alhambra. 

Dealing entirely in heroics and super- 
latives the new playet is more or less a 
reflection of its principal's training in 
melodrama. The hero is insistently and 



oppressively brave and the villain (Fred 
F. Griflin) villianous in his every pose and 
motion. The only relief is in the work of 
May Sargent, who made the ingenue role 
fairly human. The sketch is a patch- 
work of "The Squawroan" and "The Vir- 
ginian," although the carpenter work has 
been well and skilfully done. The story 
is an interesting one. It grips attention 
ioimediately and holds it to the end, but 
in tne telling there is scarcely a flash ol 
humor. The play shows no great novelty, 
but the lovemaking of the cowboy king to 
the accompaniment of shots and deep- 
dyed villainies will u^»doubtedly be 
hailed with delight by vaudeville audi- 
ences. The ofTering has a decidedly pret^ 
setting in the interior oC^ an Arizona 
ranch. It rund about twenty minutes. 

■•• V ',;';-■/ Rush. 



James Norval and "Variety Girls.** 

"Stage Door Johnny." 

Open in one; close full stage. . 

Keeney's. 

Singing, dancing and artistic dressing 
are odinarily accepted as the "points" of 
a girl act. In place of these essentials 
Mr. Norval gives us his personal ideas of 
comedy through an eighteen-minute 
sketch. The action runs at least six min- 
utes before a^ single voice is raised in 
song and there is not a dance until near 
the end. The sketch, for that is what the 
ofTering amounts to, is in two scenes. 
The first shows a stage door. This is 
made the occasion of certain dialogue in- 
volving a stagt^hand which is not par- 
ticularly entertaining. "Johnny" appears 
and takes two girls to dinner provided 
only with $2. The scene shifts to Del- 
monico's by the simple process of raising 
the drop, and here is more comedy in- 
volving a $47 dinner check, not to speak 
of a George Cohan song rather poorly done 
by Norval surrounded by the girls and 
finally a dance. The unfortunate situation 
of the $2 bill and the $47 check is cleared 
up by the waiters bringing "Johnny" 
someone else's overcoat with money-loaded 
pockets. Rush. 



"The Majors.** 

Songs. 

Colonial. 

"Mr. Arthur Prince Presents the 
Majors" is the announcement. There are 
five young men, but it is as a quartet 
that success is won. A manly appearing 
tenor singer of more than ordinary merit 
has tuneful selections, and the En<;lish 
atmosphere, both in the dressing and 
selections, gives the r'^qiiisite tinish. 
Some birds' imitations aiul piano playing 
are given, but the singing carries the act, 
which will be well liked. Sime. 



Sutados. 

Japanese Acrobats and Jugglers. 

New York Theatre. 

At the New York Theatre last Sunday 
niffht the Royal Japs or Sutados (as they 
will hereafter be known) appeared for the 



first time here. It is a Kitamura act, with 
the customary features of the Japanese 
juggling and acrobatic turns. Everything 
this troupe does, however, is superior to 
that seen before. The "Risley" work at 
the close with an ever-laughing boy for the 
ball caused a veritable "riot" in the house. 
The Sutados is the best Jap acrobatic act 
now over here. Sime. 






John T. Kelly. 
"A Game of Con.** 
Hammerstein*s. 

You are obliged to guess whose house 
Mr. Kelly is in and why he is there in 
"A Game of Con," the latest comedy act 
of John T. Kelly's which is beiug played 
at Hammerstein's this week. Herbert 
Hall Winslow is the author, and "dramatic 
license"" has been especially injected into 
the TiMM. ~ 1^^^ 0^urke,^ft~ 

contractor, has had a "night before." The 
uiorning after he is led to believe that he 
did the usual silly things while under 
the influence of liquor. When the woman 
in the case arrives a settlement is agreed 
upon for $5,000. There is nothing extra- 
ordinarv in the idea of the sketch or the 
manner in which it is played. A bright 
line now and then crops up and Mr. Kelly 
causes a few laughs among his admirers. 
He does not abbreviate his sentences with 
gasps as formerly. Henry Keane as the 
accomplice of the adventuress (Dora 
Booth) was listless. Miss Booth handled 
her part with a certain liveliness, al- 
though called upon to go to the extremes 
of farcical endeavor. A police officer who 
did not appear was programmed. 

Sime. 



Flemen and Miller. 
Talk and Songs. 
Pastor's. 

If there are any more teams in the West 
like Billy Flemen and Kitty Miller they 
ought to catch the first train for New 
York City, the Mecca for all vaudevillians. 
Flemen and Miller are appearing at 
Pastor's this week and it is understood 
that this is Mr. Flemen's first visit to 
the metropolis. Telling stories and sing- 
ing songs, the pair present an appearance 
equal to any team seen in vaudeville 
engaged similarly, not excepting those 
vaudeville models, Wm. Gould and Vales- 
ka Suratt. Fleinon wears an Inverness 
over his evening clothes and is dressed 
correctly from his shoes to his hat. Miss 
Miller wears a handsome black velvet 
gown with pink rosebuds, not loud or 
quiet, but just "dressy." And above all. 
both are good lo<iking, extremely so. 
Flemen might have a better singing voice, 
but that is not a serious handicap in their 
particular lino of work. The selections 
were new to this part of the country, 
and liked. The talk could be bettered in 
spots. Flemen and Miller should be 
snapped up quickly by those desiring what 
will quickly develop into a corking act 

Sime. 



in "one." 



Wylie's Dog Circus. 
Animal Act. 
9 Mins.; Full Stage. 
Fifth Avenue. 

Appearing in New York City for the 
first time, Wylie's dogs will be enjoyed the 
most by children. A drop represenftTTg an 
amphitheatre is in use and this gives a 
«ood setting. The animals go through a 
performance without sequence for a few 



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moments before the trainer walks upon the 
stage, although it may be plainly seen that 
the dogR are taking cues from the wings. 
After Wylie takes command in person sev- 
eral familiar tricks are shown, with a new 
idea in acrobatic work, the dogs leaping off 
a small table and turning somersaults with- 
out visible direction. The meagreness of 
the audience at the Fifth Avenue gave no 
gauge as to the act's reception. Simc. 



Sisters Albert. i 

Sodgs and Dances. 
Harry Bryant Company. 

Imported especialy for this burlesque 
show. Jennie Albert is possessed of a 
"freak" voice which she uses without ex- 
pression. Singing with her sister in the 
olio the pair make no impression, ex- 
_cepting with the dances, which should 
be in clogs. Jennie should sing alone, as 
the voices do not blend. Rose could be 
impressed for a soubrette. She is a 
good-looking girl and that seems her des- 
tination. The act as it stands carries 
no weight. Simc. 



Les Rossignols. 

Quintet. 

Harry Bryant's Company. 

Brought over from Germany, the five 
young women billed as Les Rossignols have 
been placed in the chorus of the bur- 
lescjue troupe, where they belong. Tvvtf 
only of the girls have voices. They help 
to fill in a little olio time, but why the 
act was considered worth importing is a 
mystery. iiitne. 



The Kneedlers. 

Musicians. 

Pastor's. 

"Musicians" covers both vocal and in- 
strumental efforts, for what the Kneed- 
lers do are only efforts, whether Mr. 
Kneedler is attempting to play a harp 
solo or singing a Tyrolean warble. His 
makeup is always poor. Miss Kneedler 
plays a tuba and earns some regard for 
this singular performance by a woman, 
but she needs to gather close to the foot- 
lights in her vocal efforts. The act has 
a long road to travel before reaching the 
first class, but that may come with earn- 
est endeavor, with some common sen.sc 
added. Simc. 



"Princess Trixie.** 

Animal Act. < 

Harlem Opera House. 

A single animal doing rathep better 
than we have seen before the usual tricks 
of "talking horse," or other so-called 
"thinking animals." "Trixie" picks out 
numbers and colors from piles at the 
command either of the trainer or of per- 
sons in the audience. The numbers and 
colors are indiscriminately mixed in piles 
and •'Trixie" obeys promptly and without 
slips. Where acts of this sort are in 
demand "Princess Trixie" should have 
early and steady call. Rush. 



Ada Corbctt, the soubrette of the "Star 
Show Girls," and Ira Kos.sner, a former 
menlber of Hyde's "Blue Ribbon Girls," 
were married on Tuesday of this week. 
The "Stars" are gaining the reputation of 
being a sort of matrimonial storm centre. 
This is the second time the lightning has 
struck in the same place. 




I regret to learn that Manager Butt of 
the Palace Theatre has taken exception 
to my paragraph in the issue of Septem- 
ber 1 in reference to the rumored change 
of management at the Palace. Nothing 
of the slightest detriment to Mr. Butt's 
good name was intended, and when I 
spoke of percentage splitting I expected 
that all knew that Mr. Butt has always 
been strenuously opposed to that nefarious 
practice. 



By C. C. BARTRAM. 
VARIETY'S London Office, 40 Lisle street, 

The Grand, Islington, has put on twice- 
nightly drama, forced by the live competi- 
tion of ten music halls within a drawing 
radius that used the double show scheme 
and were ruining its business. The Putney 
Hippodrome, down near Stoll's London resi- 
dence on the Thames, opens November 3 
under Manager Grimes. Gibbons opens his 
Willesden Empire Whitmonday, 1907. The 
autumn business rules good at all the halls. 



Oswald Stoll reminds one of the Irish- 
man's owl, that was "very quiet, but kept 
up a dickens of a thinking." His Welsh 
secretary, Llewellyn Jones, is said to have 
a vast assortment of manuscript, contain- 
ing the thinks that were thinken by Os- 
wald during his brief week among you. 
The noted director has a "devouring eye," 
and it's safe to say that not a great deal 
escapod his ubseivation. So far nothing 
has leaked out except that he made Anglo- 
American booking arrangements with the 
Keith-Proctor combine by which artists of 
either country could book circuit extensions 
soas over. Uogarding the Coliseum there 
is nothing but golden silence. My informa- 
tion a.s to its very late opening is proving 
correct, and the Christmas holidays wjll 
undoubtedly wake it up. 



Marie Tempest has been interviewed at 
the Palace, and preluding her powwow 
came, in reportorial language, "a rustle o£ 
silken skirts." As Marie is a "rustler" 
her skirts have a right to rustle, and no 
doubt a trained London reporter could dis 
tinguish silk skirts by the sound. Of mu- 
sic hall audiences the fair warbler says: 

"I don't like them, I simply love them. 
They are so kind, so enthusiastic, so ap- 
preciative." At the close of her London 
season she goes to Monte Carlo for a Ri- 
viera vacation. 



V 



At the Crystal Palace 204 bands and 
r»,000 players recently contested for a 1,000- 
Kuinea trophy. A Mexborough band, main- 
ly composed of miners, won and the leader 
said : ^ 

"We owe our success to the way we have 
practiced, sometimes as much as six times 
a week. We bought our instruments by 
small weekly contributions, buying one at 
a time. They'll go mad in Mexborough 
when they hear we've won, and theie'll be 
gallons of beer for us." Art forever ! 



A writer on pantomime in the I-iondon 
Star advocates making the "I'rincipal Boy" 
a real boy of handsome appearance and able 
to sing, some clever chap picked from the 
ranks of musical comedy. For the imma- 
ture girls he would substitute trained and 
exi>erienced stage women. At Drury Lane 
Arthur Collins is taking time by the fore- 
lock by October rehearsals of his Christ- 
mas pantomime "Aladdin," which will be 
a wonderful production with specially 
huge effects. 

The Empire is rehearsing a new ballet, 
and it's said will introduce a harmless 
travesty on the Edna May resignation, by 
which the Belle of ".May Fair" lost its 
"Fair May." nio Alhambra's ballet of 
love, "L'Amour," still pulls in the crowds. 



Director L. C. J. Livermore has just 
died at his residence. Tooting, London, in 
his sixty-first year, after only a short ill- 
nes. Anciently he waa one of the Three 
Brothers Livermore, proprietors of the 
famous white-wigged Court Minstrels which 
toured the kingdom extensively. . 



The London County Council, which is 
very old fogy-like on the matter of signs, 
some time ago made Mr. Stoll take down 
the magnificent revolving and illuminated 
sign which made glorious the Coliseum 
dome. Now it is prosecuting the Palace 
for building out front an illuminated glass 
sign which projects on the pavement two 
feet two inches at its greatest depth. It 
doesn't reach out beyond the cornices, is 
not in the way ^nd is distinctly artistic, 
neat and ornamental. The case was ad- 
journed so the court could have a look, and 
it's hoped that its decision will be liberal. 



Harry Lauder is topping the Empress, 
Brixton, and receiving a big welcome as 
congratulation for his returning health. 
At Liverpool a man has been sent up six 
months for stealing a theatrical hamper 
from a railway station. The English han- 
dling of luggage is delightfully primitive, 
and if you don't keep an eagle eye on your 
bjiggftge at a station anybody can claim it. 
Perhaps the ' American checking system 
will be introduced about the year 2000. 
There is one fine thing, though, as you 
can get more excess luggage over the rail- 
ways here than in any country in the 
world. In this matter the railways are 
exceedingly courteous to the Music Hall 
Artists' Railway Association — taking little 
note of bags and baggage if a gathered 
group of artists with green card creden- 
tials is going. 



Louis Cohen's new Napoleonic sketch, 
"A Drummer of the 7Cth," is a hit at the 
Camberweir Palace. In Paris Liane de 
Pougy, authoress, music hall star, etc., has 
had a motor car accident and lies in the 
hospital with a severe wound in her thigh. 
Master Sydney Leno, son of the late Dan 
Leno, bid^i amateur theatricals farewell 
October 20, when he plays his own version 
of Cinderella with assistance from four 
other members of the Leno family and 
"supes" from all the neighborhood. After 
that the sixteen-year-old boy will take to 
the halls and do that "Following in father's 
footsteps" of which V^esta Tilley sings. 



Maskelyne calls his new spirit produc- 
tion, in which the ghost forms from a vapor 
issuing from his side, by the fitting title 
"A Side Issue." As this is a reproduction 
of what Archdeacon Colley thought he saw, 
Maskelyne still threatens that he will utie 



W. 

the courts to collect $5,000 offered by fbe 
cloaked cleric for a reproduction of the 
spirit circle mystery. Whether be U bluff- 
ing or in earnest it is certain that be it 
getting a great deal of free advertising 
out of the matter, as well as drawing gen- 
tlemen of the cloth to see the show at St. 
George's Hall. 



The Variety Federation bad 55 new mem- 
bers last week, and its muster roll ooir 
mounts to 3,200. No one ever thought an 
artists* society would win such a hold in 
England. It Is figuring in the present 
barring suits in the London courts and can 
command any amount of money to test ita 
rights in this matter. It would not be sur- 
prising if the present suit was fought to A 
clean finish as a test case. 



f .' 



Adeline Genee has been offered three 
times her Empire salary to go to America 
in 1908. She has been here nine years 
and danced her way into all hearts. The 
hope is that she will renew her Empire 
contract with a permit in it to make a 
trip to America, "just to show what an 
English principal dancer can do." Tbie 
last is rather rich press work, as Genee la 
not English, but Danish. 



The Alhambra denies the rehearsal of a 
new ballet, and says L'Amour is down for 
a long, prosperous and indefinite run. 



At Liverpool the Ilaymarket opens soon 
under Jaseph S. Childs. Broadhead asked 
a provisional license for a new music ball 
at Lodge Lane and Beaumont street, to 
cost $125,000, but the authorities refused 
to do anything until the building was 
erected. The Hull Empire opened October 
1 under T. Selwyn and the Gullingliam 
Hippodrome under F. R. Griffiths. At 
London the Putney IIip[)odrome opens 
November 5; one show, popular prices. 
Gibbons will open the Brixton Theatre as 
the Brixton Hippodrome October 22. 



There Is general sympathy with the 
Lyceum shareholders, soaked $r).r>ri5 for 
rates and dues when closed. Tlje decision 
will probably be contested, as the hall 
"rea<ly to open at a moment's notice** Is 
ready to fight at a moment's notice, t00» 
when jumped on in this way. 



The search for cheap material Is now 
turning to beach plerrots, eight troupes 
having gone through the trial show test In 
London in one week. Guss Drawee writes 
from Marseilles reporting the burning of 
the Bouffe Bordelaire, Bordeaux, Sept 
2.'?-24, all arti.sts losing everything. A 
benefit has been arranged at Marseilles. 



The first week's business at the Royal 
Albert, Canning Town, London, with a 
big show and modern methods, has sntoQ- 
ished every one. Joe Lnwre;ice, father of 
Vesta Victoria, is authority for the stste- 
ment that the week's receii)ts, "wet and 
dry," bar and l)illi;ird rooms and admission, 
agj;regat«d $I.S."0. For a small hall that 
do»'R well, hHiI t!ie manager is only a young 
fellow. The former management stands 
aruuiid amazed. 



10 



VARIBTY 



Shows of the Week 



EMPIRE BURLESQUERS. 

Roger Imhof, who has the principal and, 
indeed, the only real comedy role of the 
whole olTering, titauds out in strong relief 
at the IJewey Theatre as an entertainer 
of unusual merit. Ue makes use of an 
Irish dialect character, true to life in 
makeup and manner of speech, and is 
one of the few burlesque comedians whose 
presence on the stage does not arouse in 
his audience a passionate desire to hear 
the music cues that introduce the chorus, 
liis lines in the first part, "The Land of 
Sunshine," are fairly bright and in the 
burlesque he has a quantity of ace-high 
comedy business. 

As to the other comedians, with the pos- 
sible exception of Charles F. Harris in 
a tramp makeup, the* best that can be 
said is that they were seven in number 
and burdened the stage with their pres- 
ence from time to time. This was due 
partly to the fact that they had been 
handed parts that gave them small oppor- 
tunity to impress themselves upon their 
auditors and partly to the fact that Imhof 
had all the "fat" of the show. 

Susanne Oorinne made a mechanical 
soubrette with a talking voice resembling 
the sound of a phonograph and a harsh, 
brassy voice in the musical numbers. She 
led several musical ensembles and in 
every case her voice was far below the 
average of the chorus, which is a really 
good vocal organization. The dressing of 
the two pieces is adequate and the 
women principals showed tasteful gown- 
ing. 

Gladys St. John opened the olio. In 
the first part she had demonstrated her 
ability to handle coon songs, thanks to a 
strong female baritone voice of good qual- 
ity, but her olio offering consisted entirely 
of dirge-like numbers that were not en- 
livening. 

Imhof, Conn and Corinne do a semi- 
sketch of a good comedy flavor, in which 
as in the rest of the show, Imhof has 
pretty much the whole burden of resi^nsi- 
bllity. Ue has good material and the 
number brought solid laughs. 

Johnson and Buckley are using the old 
act with the green spotlight and the far- 
fetched tragedy of Ed Johnson's recitation. 
Their "tough" specialty at the finish went 
well. The Four Leigh Sisters have an en- 
tertaining dancing and singing act with 
some good team work in their steps. 

Martin and Crouch, a capital pair of 
acrobats, complete the olio. They have 
several barrel jumping feats that are 
worth attention for their novelty, and the 
comedy man holds down his end of the 
combination with not a little cleverness. 



WASHINGTON SOCIETY GIRLS. 

Barney First is about the only comedian 
in this year's offering of Eugene Kernan's 
burlesque organization. The opening piece 
is called "Levy in Japan" and is a more 
or less complete grab-off from "A Chinese 
Honeymoon," with most of the original 
humor painlessly extracted and a vast 
amount of poor clowning painfully sub- 
stituted. The musical numbers are the sav- 
ing grace of the entertainment. The songs 
are selected with an eye to popular taste 
as expressed through the medium of the 
srteet organ, and the girls, an even score 
in number, are well drilled and good to 
look at. Abbie Oarltton, a atrUdBg 



blonde, does very well as the leader of 
several numbers. In the burlesque she ap- 
pears in a gown that needs editing. This 
costume is of white satin with a court 
train, the graceful lines of which are not 
at all improved by the fact that the skirt 
escapes the floor in front by a margin of 
more than four inches. Otherwise Miss 
Carleton dresses in good taste. 

Margaret H. King, the soubrette, be- 
longs to the extreme opposite brunette 
type and looks decidedly well in a snort 
skirted gown of white. Both women have 
agreeable voices and display plenty of ani- 
mation and ginger in their work. 

First has been handed a dull part which 
he relieves only at times by flashes of 
cleverness. A bunch of parodies and a 
good eccentric dance in the first part 
helped somewhat. For the rest he re- 
ceives little aid from the other comedians 
and the proceedings go forward slowly to 
the accompaniment of clowning and horse- 
play of poor quality, lightened only by 
music cues. 

John F. Tweedy opened the olio with a 
series of character songs in a high tenor 
voice of fair quality. The final number, 
an Irish song, was well liked. 

Miss Carleton comes into the olio with 
a living picture act in which the grouper 
are well arranged for purposes of curve 
display, but not very striking for origin- 
ality. Her show patter, which runs along 
incidentally, is arranged to catch laughs 
and fills its mission admirably. 

The Brothers Lassard, an acrottatio 
team, have some striking tricks in two- 
high handstands, but allow the act to sag 
in the middle. They should work it up 
better, using the simpler work at the 
opening and reserving the more showy 
tricks for the finish. They have plenty of 
good material and improvement is merely 
a matter of rearrangement. 

Another reincarnation of "Carmencita** 
has place in the olio. She has taken unto 
herself an exceedingly good imitation of 
Le Domino Rouge's former costume. She 
did nicely with her dancing and a back- 
ing of girls dressed the stage prettily. 

Honan and Kearney, eccentric comed- 
ians, did their best work with several 
parodies. The talk is effective, in the 
usual vein of burlesque dialogue. 



HARLEM OPERA HOUSE. 

A poor audience notwithstanding an at- 
tractive reduction in the matinee admis- 
sion scale, a bill rivalling in lack of. quality 
that offered for the opening of the Fifth 
Avenue Theatre three weeks ago, and 

Mrs. Langtry marked the opening of the 
new Keith-Proctor temple of art and en- 
tertainment in 125th street Monday after- 
noon. '■ '■':'■• ■ ■'.'■V .' 

Frank Byron and Louise Langdon with 
"The Dude Detective" returned the best 
dividends in laughter making and Lew 
Sully trailed a good second with his mono- 
logue. Sully fills a niche of his own in 
the monologue gallery, getting away as he 
docs from the familiar style in the mat- 
ter and manner of his offering. Some of 
his talk was a jump ahead of his audi- 
ence's comprehension. 

Mosher, Houghton and Mosher did nice- 
ly with their three-cornered bicycle act. 
There would seem to be some ground for 
the suspicion that the trio haa watehad 



- By Rush 

the Baker Troupe and selected therefrom 
the trick of whirling the comedy man. 
They also use what looks like an adapta- 
tion of the Barber -Ritchie "shoe wheel" 
aj4 part of a sedan chair that gives the 
comedy man an excellent entrance. For 
the rest the work is, toward the finale, ex- 
ceptionally good. 

Josephine Gassman and her three clever 
"picks," with the accent btrougly on the 
*'picks," made rather a light number for 
so important a place a6 that following 
Mrs. Langtry. 

Willie Weston was bUled No. 4, but 
moved into a later and better position. 
Weston catches an unusual degree of 
raturaluess in his impersonations and 
works with ease and certainty through- 
out. Morrow and Schellberg show a neat 
talking and singing act, both in the 
makeup of their offering and in the dress- 
ing. The Six Musical Cuttys made a 
bright spot about midway on the bill with 
their agreeable stage presence and musical 
numbers. 

Among the early birds Professor Dubois 
with his educated baboon filled in certain 
time entertainingly enough for the 
youngsters. The "monk" is valuable for 
comedy purposes, and works smoothly, 
without too much urging. Ward Brothers 
do ouly fairly in a dancing and singing 
act. ITieir voices fail to carry very far 
into the audience and they did better with 
dancing Also they used their makeup 
boxes abominably. 

Naomi Ethardo, "Princess Trixie" (New 
Acts) and Texarkana and Walby were the 
others. 



HYDE & BEHMAN'S. 

Edmund Day with his Western sketch 

"The Sheriff" and the Jean Bedini version 

of "A Night in an English Music Hall" 

are depended upon to give weight to the 

Adams street bill this week, while Will 

Lester and Charles H. Acker are seen for 
the first time in a semi-sketch, "The 
Little Immigrant" (New Acts). 

The De Faye Sisters, billed as "The Two 
Little Musical Maids/' earn deserved dis- 
tinction in the opening position partly 
through a striking costume scheme. Both 
girls wear well-constructed gowns of bril- 
liant pink admirably set off by a drop of 
black velvet. They are good to look upon 
and work as though they were enjoying 
themselves. 

Mile. Nadji, among other things, climbs 
tall fiights of stairs upon her hands, 
thereby displaying to a throbbing public 
a strong pair of arms and shoulders and 
a particularly bad arrangement of her 
blouse. This performance, however, is 
reasonably graceful by reason of the per. 
former's attractiveness of face and figure. 
Her finishing trick consists of holding 
herself suspended by her teeth and spin- 
ning rapidly, an awkward spectacle and 
one painfully suggestive of a lynching 
bee. • ,,■,;.. ■ ■^; - .■; •• 

Edmund Day has written himself a 
splendid part in "Slim" Hoover, and plays 
it to the limit of its possibilities for quiet 
native humor. The sketch tells its simple 
story directly and with intelligent hand- 
ling of the light and shade of humor to an 
unexpected and altogether delightful quiet 
final line. 

Lew Hawkiai detenret a Tota of thaaki 



for the production of half a dozen new 
parodies on songs that have not yet been 
done to death by the parodists. Also the 
greater part of his talk was new, but he 
needs to be told that "I will prove conclu- 
sive" and like infractions of the rules of 
the House Committee on speech are not 
good form. 

The Four Rianos have a lot of very 
mussy business in their childish offering. 
The woman of the quartet still talks 
like a human phonograph and the Profes- 
sor continues to wear quite the most im- 
possible wig imaginable. There are laughs 
for the simple-minded in the cavortings of 
the "monks," but the early stuff is funny 
under no conditions. __ 

Cook and Sylvia scored with singing 
and dancing as usual, a result to which 
their tasteful, not to say elaborate, dress- 
ing contributed not a little, and the 
Bedini act at the end went to the accom- 
paniment of solid laughs from an audience 
that wotted not, nor cared, for charges 
and counter- charges of larceny and the 
like. 



KEENEY'S. 

Estelle Wordette and company, who 

were billed, wired at the last minute that 

they would not be able to appear, and 

Tom Gillen, monologist, substituted. This 

caused a general revision of the bill. 

James Norval with a "girl act" and Maud 
Edwards, ventriloquist, were seen for the 
first time and are under New Acts. 

The Taylor Twin Sisters with their 
skating act did fairly in the opening. The 
girls dress neatly, have a number of grace- 
ful and striking feats and altogether make 
a fair number in the early position. 

Mr. Gillen follows pretty much the 
familiar methods of the Irish comedian 
with his parodies and stories. The tales 
are new for the most part and Gillen 
makes them entertaining. 

Edna Aug is showing her revised 
character act with a new assistant. The 
man's voice is not so powerful as his pre- 
decessor's and in the duet Miss Aug's 
warbling has a chance to be heard. In 
eliminating the "scrubwoman" specialty 
Miss Aug has found it necessary to fill 
in the time with a quantity of business 
as an incidental to her final song. A 
little of this would do nicely, but the 
singer deals it out in quantities that make 
the latter half of the act drag. She was 
called upon at Keeney's to do something 
like twenty minutes, a severe strain to 
place upon a single entertainer in "one." 

Ten Brooke, Lambert and company call 
theirs "Professor Schmalz' Academy." 
The offering scored mightily with the 
Keeney audience. They use a curious 
finish by which the sketch is abruptly cut 
off in full flight, as it were. For the rest 
it is made up of a first-rate German com- 
edian, some bright talk and a semi- 
straight man who plays the piano with 
brilliancy. The Nelson Farnum Troupe 
of acrobats — two girls, a straight man 
and a comedian — closed the bill. The 
comedian is the strength of the com- 
bination. He has a good entrance, the 
comedy hits the mark and he does a good 
somersault from a perch. The girls look 
well and contribute some fast ground 
tumbling. Swan and Baxnbard also ap- 
peared. 



VAKIBTT 



II 



Shows of the Week 



By Sime 



HARRY BRYANT'S £XTSAVAGANZA. 

The show Mr. Bryant is presenting at 
the Murray Hill Theatre this week might 
be termed anything regardless of conse- 
quences. He has elected to call it "Ex- 

travaganza.*' Any other name would be 
a more suitable fit. That the Murray 
Hill audience, composed mostly of women 
and children at the Monday matinee, 
liked the show is no gauge. It is of th* 
old school and were the clock pushed 
back fifteen years Mr. Bryant could look 
with pride upon his offering. 

The "slapstick" predominates. Noth- 
ing else draws laughs in the pieces. 
"Business" long since forgotten has been 
revived and the play drags out its weary 
length in an interminable mass of medi- 
ocre comedy. 

Two principals and the chorus are the 
saving qualities. The first part has been 
thrown together and the burlesque is the 
same as last year's. The greatest mis- 
take is Mr. Bryant's appearance. He is 
in evidence at all times, and while at 
some time Bryant may have resembled a 
comedian, that day has passed. Geo. X. 
Wilson feebly helps him in the attempted 
funmaking, but the one comedian in the 
show is Billy Wells, formerly of the Yorke 
Comedy Four, who plays a Hebrew part 
in the opening but is kept in the back- 
ground during the burlesque. 

Amy Thompson and Ruby Marion in- 
flict with music on the brasses almost im- 
mediately after the raising of the curtain 
and this might be relegated to the olio or 
afterward. Edna Barrie is the twinkling 
star. Miss Barrie is never quiet when 
on the stage. She is a pretty girl, with 
the same kind of a figure, and her pres- 
ence is ever welcome. 

There are fourteen girls in the chorus. 
One blonde who resembles Effie Fay 
should be made a principal. The cast is 
sorely in need of youthful and good-look- 
ing women. The only instance where the 
chorus is attractive is in the burlesque 
where the girls appear in tights. Miss 
Barrie particularly, with a diamond pin 
attached to her thigh, causes talk. 

The olio has two foreign numbers (New 
Acts) and carries Darmody, a juggler, 
who appeared in the same opening posi- 
tion last year. George S. Banks and Billy 
S. Newton carry off the honors with talk- 
ing and dancing, while George X. Wilson 
and company in a sketch prove con- 
clusively how well Mr. Wilson might do 
alone. Bush and Elliott close the olio 
with comedy acrobatics and a simple en- 
core. 



NEW CENTURY. GIRLS. 

It is a grave question whether the 
"New Century Girls'* show was placed on 
the road to amuse and attract or "boom" 
a certain brand of whiskey. There is 
naught in the performance extenuating 
the advertising. 

"The French Ball" and "Scandal in the 
Bug Family," the two pieces wiitten and 
staged by Sam Rice, contain an unlimited 
quantity of old material, both in the 
"business" and jokes, that causes the per- 
formance as a whole to be a tiresome 
offering. 

Jack McOabe as an Irishman is the only 
comedian among the six not recruited 
from the olio. Mr. MoOabe*! conception 



is the old-time stuttering Hibernian, who 
threatens every one with a bottle or 
stick, at the* same time giving an Imita- 
tion of a jumping jack. A character of 
less merit is the Hebrew of Frank E. 
Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell is a German in 
the burlesque also and his work is dii- 
heartening. None of the principals at- 
tract attention excepting May Belle. Miss 
Belle appears with Tom Barrett in the 
olio and is altogether overconfident there. 
In the pieces, though, she is seen to much 
better advantage, looking well and having 
a pleasant singing and speaking voice, 
particularly the latter. 

The "star" featured by an "and" on 
the programme is Nellie Sylvester, who 
occupies considerable space on the stage 
and is hampered through her inability to 
sing. Mildred Valmore is affected simi- 
larly, although Miss Valmore does well 
in a series of character songs. 

The chorus contains twelve girls. Two 
are good-looking, one red-haired young 
woman and a rather stout blonde. 
Changes are numerous, but the dressing haa 
been selected with poor taste and with 
economy in mind. The group appears to 
best advantage when dressed in red sing- 
ing "Turtle Dove," led by Miss Valmore. 
Again the blue costumes of the "Billy 
Boy" number with Miss Belle at the head 
are pretty. 

"Betting" is a favored bit of humor 
with the pseudo comedians who are con- 
tinually falling over themselves in an 
effort to gain laughs. There is a minstrel 
part with the girls seated without re- 
gard to the proprieties, but the show is 
"clean." 

The strongest number in the olio of 
six acts (and a cleverly constructed pic- 
ture of the Vanderbilt Cup Race) is the 
Bartelli Troupe of three male acrobats. 
The Stein-Erreto head -balancing trick is 
given and the two boys are excellent 
tumblers. Often through pure laziness the 
featured trick is not shown. 

The "New Century Girls" may have 
passed the Censor Committee, but they 
just about got by. 



FIFTH AVENUE. 

It is hardly believable that a vaudeville 
artist will attempt seriously to create a 
good opinion before an audience of nine 
persons. This was the condition at the 
Fifth Avenue Theatre on Wednesday even- 
ing at 6 :50. In the orchestra by 7 :50 the 
number had been increased to 104. By nine 
o'clock there were 160 seats occupied down 
stairs. An usher volunteered the informa- 
tion that it was "the best house of the 
week." 

There was no incentive for earnest en- 
deavor. For that reason the early or "sup- 
per" show will be overlooked. The Fifth 
Avenue will soon gain th^ appellation of 
the "vaudeville morgue" if the "three-a- 
day" acts must continue to play to the 
pianist only. 

Wylie's Dog Circus and Morris Oonin 
are under New Acts. Brown, Harris and 
Brown have a new tenor who sings pleas- 
antly and easily, but is in need of a be- 
coming derby. The woman has three 
changes, the last of which is an expensive 
white gown. There is too much "ima^- 
nary" talk and the lack of it would 
brighten up the act immeasurably. Emma 
Oarue persista in the belief that the my 



prano that she seemed likely to fully de- 
velop at one time has been done. In con- 
sequence her singing Jars, although she 
handles a "coon" song in an acceptable 
manner, but her lower tones, if clung to, 
would return better results. 

Macy, Hall and company (Jessie Dodd) 
are giving a both amusing and interesting 
story in "The Magpie and the Jay" by 
Edward Weitzel. The plot is completely 
laid out and all the players score. Miss 
Dodd in an eccentric character part nearly 
rises to a par with Miss Hall as a Bowery 
tough girl. The latter type may be a trifle 
overdrawn, but it pleases. 

The headliner is Winsor McCJay, the car- 
toonist, who reappears with a revised edi- 
tion of his former offering. The present 
series of quick sketches in black and white 
commences with what might be termed a 
pictorial "seven ages of man." Without 
at any time entirely erasing the heads of a 
man and woman from the blackboard, Mr. 
McCay with a few deft touches carries the 
audience from babyhood to old age. Mc- 
Cay neither comments nor talks upon his 
work, going through the act in a business- 
like manner. 

Hayes and Johnson and Avery and Hart 
passed through their time. Hart sang 
"Nobody," which was or seemed new to 
the house. 



PASTOR'S. 



Two pleasant surprises caused by new 
acts (Florence and Charles Gregson and 
Flemen and Miller), together with sev- 
eral feature numbers for the Pastor bill, 
resulted in an excellent show this week 
at the Fourteenth street home of vaude- 
ville. 

The new acts are in that department, 
with the Kneedlers also, (jallagher and 
Barrett in "The Battle of Too Soon" were 
the headliners and Lawrence and Har- 
rington in the comedy sketch "Install- 
ments" the "extra attraction." 

The "Special Feature" was the Doherty 
Sisters, becomingly costumed in brown. 
It is a color that should be worn more 
often than it is. The girls have a lively 
act, moving all the time, and May Doh- 
erty with her "mugging" and impersona- 
tions is a continual laugh. 

Shedman's Dogs closed the bill and 
Juggling Mathieus also appeared. Harry 
Calvo made a solid hit with his songs and 
stories, only one of the latter being out 
of date. Mr. Calvo has a singing voice 
far too good to use the falsetto or even 
bill himself as "the double-voiced singer." 
The Alpha Trio of hoop rollers have im- 
proved their act a hundredfold. The 
boy is forging ahead as a hoop roller. 
He is gaining smoothness and showing 
originality with a new trick seen for the 
first time this week. 

Clifford and Hall were behind their 
proper position on the programme. The 
audience liked the pair with their bois- 
terous singing. The dressing is in fright- 
ful taste and should be corrected at once. 
Cunningham and Ross in a German con- 
versation turn gave some new parodies 
and talked "Dutch" dialect fairly but not 
over-amusingly. The "slapstick" of a 
pneumatic stomach and divers kicks and 
thumps on the same are rather thread- 
bare for laughter purpoees. The team 
might better endeayor to work up ft 



straight German comedy act, with the 
knockabout forgotten. ,.• .. 

Prof. Donar opened the proceedings 
with magic of the familiar kind, although 
the professor is a near-comedian. 



HAMMERSTEIN»S. 

It is one long "wait" at Hammerstein's 
this week. The bill is composed of full 
stage acts and the audience is rendered 
restless long before the close by the con- 
tinual overtures while the stage is being 
set. 

The only act in "one" in an important 
position, Maud Lambert, is given the open- 
ing place after the intermission. Mist 
Lambert looks so well on that her pres- 
ence counts more in her favor than the 
selection used. John T. Kelly (New 
Acts), Jacob's Dogs, Cook and Stevens 
and "The Immensaphone" are portiona of 
the programme. 

Quite an event was the appearance of 
Harry Tate in his own piece "Motoring" 
which has previously been seen with an- 
other company as the players. Mr. Tate's 
performance e({uulled if it does not excel 
that of his predecessor, but the remainder, 
with the exception of the small boy, fell 
far behind. "Motoring" is an immensely 
popular act, and there is a large conflict 
of opinion as to whether it or "Fishing" 
is the more amusing. 

Shean and Warren in "Kidding the Cap- 
tain" had the audience all laughed out 
before the finale. This in a great measure 
was responsible for the lack of long ap- 
plause which greeted their efforts. A New 
York house when it enjoys a piece, and 
understands that there is nothing left 
after the finale, will not further exhaust 
itself with futile applause. This same 
condition arose in the Tate act. 

Guyer and O'Neill with singing, danc- 
ing and Guyer's pantomime attested their 
popularity, the "rough-house" dancing 
finish going as well as ever, and Rice and 
Prevost made up another pair who never 
lack for appreciation at Hammerstein's, 
where they ap(>ear so often as to be oon- 
eidered a permanent feature. Prevost 
grows more graceful in his acrobatics as 
time passes, while Rice may be depended 
upon with each return visit for some new 
bit of comedy. 



THE CIRCLE. 

The rebuilt Circle Theatre opened its 
doors to burlesque patrons on Monday 
evening with one of the strongest or- 
ganizations on the road, M. M. Thiese's 
"Wine, Woman and Song," featuring Bo- 
nita and Alex. Carr. Mr. Carr's work in 
this show has gone far toward placing it 
in the lead this season, and the piece, 
which was reviewed while at the Dewey 
Theatre, will undoubtedly go far to estab- 
lish the house under its new management. 

The former ground floor plan of the 
theatre has been entirely changed. Omni- 
bus boxes have been placed on the siJes, 
the old compartments having been ripped 
out. 

The seating capacity is 1,800 as against 
1,200 previously. The the.itfe Is no«^ un- 
der the direction of Sullivan & Kraus 
(nominally the Union Theatre Company), 
who al.HO have the I)«*uey and Gotham 
theatres, playin^r the WeRtern Burlesque 
Wheel attractions. Sam Tuck is the man- 
ager of the Circle. 



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VARIETY'S' Chicago Office, 
79 8. Clark Street. 

MAJESTIC (Lyman B. OloTer, mgr. for Kohl ft 
CaMle. Monday rehearsal 9).— -Grace Van Stud- 
dlford la on the hill. Hyama and Mclntyre give 
"Two Hundred Wlvea." The act acored a decided 
hit. BniDO and Rnasell hare fair comedy and 
Blnglng. Violet Dale, Impersonatlotia. Is clever. 
Zlaka and King haTe added new bnalneaa to their 
comedy magical act. The DInaa Troupe, eight 
women, go through a aeries of whirlwind and ac- 
robatic dancing; some of the executions graceful. 
Paal Barnea had a good string of Jolces. Lucanio 
Trio do bead-balancing and equilibriatic feats, the 
woman doing the work requiring muscular 
strength. Lillian Ashley is pleaaing In songs and 
recitations. The KIta-Bansal Japa cloaed. On 
the bill also are Onsoa, Frederick Heider and 
Wllllama and Pullman. 

OLTIfPIC (Abe Jacobs, mgr. for Kohl k. Caatle. 
Monday rehearsal 9). — Nlta Allen and company in 
"Car Two, Stateroom One," prored the noTelty of 
the bill. The sketch was well acted In apite of 
the Illness of Mln« Allen, who was under tlie care 
of a physician for aeveral days. Paul Spadoni 
doea hia hesTyweight Juggling and Charlea Semon 
again offered hia divertlug mnaic and talk. Mc- 
Waters and Tyxon surpriHed the audience with 
their really clever and artiatic performance. Both 
have genuine talent. Kelly and Kent contribate 
a good comedy sketch and Carlo and Otto In 
"Dntch" comedy are nnllke any other team of 
their kind seen here. The roller skating of Gar- 
telle Brothers found favor and Ralmund and Good 
offer a fair amount of brisk talk in their travesty 
on "Zaxa." Frankie Le Marche, made up as 
"BuPtcr Brown." atnga a few HongM and la asMlsted 
in a dance by a dog. Mha Le Marche la pleaH- 
Ing. Iji Toy Brothera show a few new feats in 
arrolMtics. lliey are good acrobata. Lydell and 
Botterwiirtb. a man and woman, are good dancers. 
Th(^ man of the team bait an exceptionally ac- 
earate negro dialect, but a lot of the talk la old 
and ahnuld be replaced. Travelle and Landers 
give an entertaining programme, combining magic. 
Juggling and Khadowgraphy. The woman has a 
s\teet wiprano voire. Slie should use it more. 

HAVMARKET (Wm. Newkirk. mgr. for Kohl A 
Castle. Monday rehearxal 9). — The bill for this 
week comprises Julius Steger and company. Bed- 
ouin Arat'S. Quaker City Quartet. Mile. Emlla 
Rose, Dick Lynch. Kline and Clifton. Beatrice 
McKenxle. Shields and Rogera, Jas. Golden. Ekirly 
and Late and Mnreland and Leigh. 

SID. J. BUSON'S (Sid. J. EuKon. mgr.).— Man- 
ager Rohie of the "Knickerbockers" does not 
need to be apprised of the completeness and splen- 
dor of his show as regards the costuming. Mr. 
Roble rtcwerves to be complimented for the gener- 
ous display of wardrobe, which is the mo«t osten- 
tations seen at Enson'a this season. There are 
six changes In the first psrt, a converging ex- 
tras a gania with a farce comedy plot, containing 
a nnmber of humoroua episodes that keep the 
comedlana on the alert. The dialogue Is not par- 
ticularly bright, but could be Improved fittingly 
to serve even the musical comedy. An experienced 
librettiat could give the desired results. Some of 
the girls look good in face and flgnre and all are 
resplendent In the exquisite gowns which share 
feature honors with the music specially written 
for the ahow. It la to be regretted that the fe- 
male voices are not strong enouKh to carry the 
tnneful and In most part melmllons music more 
effectively. The closing burlesque la rural In at- 
moapbere and farcical in theme. The action is 
brisk at times, following the conventional low 
comedy atyle familiar in burlesque. The lines 
are bright and well constructed, unbJemNhed with 
vnlgarlty, although there Is plenty of opportunity 
In the bed scene. Hie undeflled qualities that 
combine clean entertainment have l>een conserved 
with nralseworthy results. W. C. Cushmnn is 
Cft[Mble comedian and quite droll In the principal 
comedy part, but he should adapt hiinself to 
other methoda In the art of makeup and study 
tb« Hebrew type more closelj. He haadlea the 
tramp part well. Ben Neff appears to good ad- 
vantage In blackface and Robert Jewell makea 
tte best out of the materUL llo Elliott U dalntj 



and Loaise Willis does some toe dsncing qnlte 
gracefully. Clyde Darrow la pretty. The olio 
feolurea are the Five Peschkoffs in dancing evo- 
lutions. The act is well dressed and proved In- 
teresting. Jenninga and Jewell. Dutch comedlana, 
have a familiar brand of talk and some pleaaing 
parodies. Christy Is s skillful Juggler and with a 
few well-directed rcmarka kept the audience In 
good humor. Elliott and Neff have a little of 
comedy and ainglng that serred to arovae ap- 
plonse. 

NOTES.— The seventeen Pekln Zouaves will 
play the entire Inter-State circuit commencing 
November 4. — R. E. Dixon, vice-president of the 
Inter-State Amusement (Company, left the city for 
a two weeka tour of the circuit with a view of 
increasing the holdings of the company. — ^Tbe Ma- 
Jefctlc Theatre at Mobile opened Its season Mon- 
day. A telegram received Ktatea that over five 
hundred peraona were turned away. The seating 
capacity Is 1,700.— The Grand Opera Bouae. Deca- 
tur, 111., opened with vaudeville this week, booked 
through Morris, In direct opposition to the BlJou. 
Four performances are given weekly there, the 
other two divided between Bano and TaylorvlUe, 
111. Vaudeville may become permanent at the 
Grand. — l*e New Unique Theatre at Denver, Col- 
orado, opened last week. — There were over forty 
different shows In Peoria during the Carnival. 
Some of the attractions had to be contented with 
%M^ grosa for the entire week. — Mr. and Mrs. Al- 

— fred Kelcy were conn>elled to cancel their time on 

the Inter-State circuit owing to the illness of 
Mrs. Kelcy. They are resting at their home in 
this city. — H. B Burton Is now business manager 
of the Star Theatre, this city.— Lloyd Spencer baa 
been booked by the Western Vaudeville Associa- 
tion. He Oiwned this week with other middle 
West dates to follow.— The Ctonnelly Sisters 
Joined the "Night Owls" here for the balance of 
the ae.ison. The WangdiKxlle Four were trans- 
ferred from "Vanity Fair" to that company, also 
the Meeker-Raker Troupe, replacing them with 
the latter.— Chaa. J. Carter is negotiating for a 
ninety-nine-year lease on property for a vaude- 
ville theatre, 'liie location is tmid to be la the 
"loop" district.— John J, Ryan was in the city 
for a few days looking over the site he pur- 
chased for a theatre. O. F. Porter, of Minneapolis, 
was with Mr. Ryan.— Martin Beck has returned 
from his trip to the Coast.— The Star Theatre. 
Peoria, 111., waa closed by the authorities, owine 
to its Inability to conform with the fire law. It 
is said the house will not open again. 



CIMCINNATI, O. 

By HARRY HESS. 

VARIETY'S Cincinnati Office. 
107 Bell Block. 

STANDARD (CHias. B. Arnold, mgr.).— "Vanity 
Fair" (Bob Manchester, mgr.). The costumes and 
Btape settings are elegant. The closing number 
ltitro<luced Sfveral well-rendered singing numbers. 
The Five English Musketeers in a broadsword 
combat were greatly enjoyed, aa was the spedaUy 
of Anna .\fllne. Shepard and Ward. German 
comedians and aingers, one of the hits. Belle Wil- 
ton, Musette Sutherland and company have a de- 
cided novelty in "l*e Butterflies and the Daisies" 
and "The Birth of the United States," a gorg.-ons 
spectacular "broiler" chorus act. Wang(loo<lle 
Four, very funny. Ree<l and Shaw, acrobats, real 
hit. Next week: "The Behman Show." 

PFX)PLE'S (J. E. FennesRy, mgr.).— "The Jolly 
Girls." Lovers of straight burlesque of the higher 
type packed this theatre to see one of the best 
shows of the season. Many expressed the hope 
that the manaeement would use its Influence with 
travelling mnnugers to secure comedians of the 
class which Mr. Hayes represents. Maggie and 
Llllinn Newell and chorus sing "Mile. New York" 
In such a manner as to be one of the hits of the 
opening number. May Sheldon and chorus scored. 
Kitty Buckey also scored. J. W. Sherry intro- 
duces "The Magic Bunch of Seaweed," and the 
DeKabrys' dancing earned an encore. Prentice 
Troupe, acrobats, scored heavily. Next week: 
"Bohemian Burlesqners." 

COLUMBIA (H. M. Zlegler. mgr.- Sunday re- 
hearsals 10:.'10>. — The Orphenm Shnw (Mnrtln 
Beck, mgr.) The opening number, "Wilson's Mon- 
key," Is an act fair of its kind. Claude and Fanny 
Usher in "Tough Love" received curtain calls. 
Work and Ower. acrobats, good. Ed F. Reynard, 
ventriloquist, elalmrate stng^e aetting and distinct 
hit. Max Konorah and wife presented "Mene- 
tekel." mystifying. Walter C Kelly, "the Vir- 
ginia Judge," has one of the best monologues in 
vaudeville. Waybnm's "Rain Dears" scored a big 
hit. Houdlni has been added to this week'a show 
and is again drawing big crowds. Next week: 
Anna Eva* Fay. "TTie Futnrity Winner." LIna 
Piintser, Dillon Brothers, Musical Alvos, Carson 
and WlIlHrd and Wllla Holt Wakefield. 

OLYMPIC (D. F. McCoy, mgr. Sunday rehear- 
stils 10). — The bill this week on paper looked 
"big," but It turned out the poorest since the 
opening of this theatre. Tlie opening number, 
llie Great Pas<atel. contortionist, good. Krohe- 
mann Brothers, acrobats, first time here, clever 
turn. Daily's "Dixie Serenaders" (colored), fair 
only. Canfield nnd Carlton in "The Hoodoo" have 
an act that is due for the "morgue." Comedy is 
not suited to the taste of Olympic audiences. Ger- 
tie Reynolds and her "Twirley Girlies" have a 
nice act. but it needs Improvement. Mrs. Stuart 
Robson has a sketch called "The I.ate Mr. Wlld- 
oats," extremely ordinary. Maggie Cllne, with 
the assistance of the ushers, received an encbre 
So as to Intro<luce her old favorite, "Throw Him 
Down. McClusky." Hill and Sllvalny, blcycll.-its. 
cnslly the hit of the bill. Madge Maltland. or- 
dinary act. Next week: Maude Rockwell, Thome 
and Carlton, Jupiter Brothers, Herbert Wllke and 
company. 

> PHILADELPHIA. f 

By GEORGE M. TOUVO (Kinki). 
KEITH'S (H. T. Jordan, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 9:30). — Charles EL Evtns snd company* 
pnaentlnR Georjte Arllss' farce "It's Up to You. 
William." Principal number on week's bill. An 
old theme has been selected, but with a novel 
opening It proved entertaining. The comedy Is 
well worked up and the points vrM laoghtsr. The 
Three Donals In a ring act showed notb^nff that 
has not been done by others xi/t ffieir class on 
the rings, but the hand-bsUnoinff Vntl^ wefs oot 



of the ordinary. The aim of the Emplr* Comedy 
Four appears to t>e to make as much noise ss 
possible. This helps to dro«'n some of the sing- 
ing. The set won laughs, which is probably all 
that the four are working for. Quigg, Mackey 
and NlckersoQ offered % musical get. The trio 
numbera In brass were particularly poor. The 
novelty -of hearing a Chiiksmaft aing in Bngllab 
and German and with an Irlah brogue Is the value 
of the act by Lee Tung Foo. O'Brien, Havel and 
Lawrence pleaaed again with "Ticka and Clicks," 
and Alf Grant and Ethel Hoag were applauded 
for their varied offering. Mlaa Hoag's principal 
connection with the act la to look well, which she 
does. She might be used to better advantage. 
Kimball and Lewis have a pleaaing acrobatic and 
singing act; Will Mend ahow a cleverly trained 
dog and Leila Taylor sang pleasingly. Harry 
l>otter and company, Halley and Mann and Nesaen, 
Honter and Nessen were also on the bill, along 
with Harndin'a electric ballet, held over. 

BIJOU (William Jennings, mgr.).— What ap- 
pears to be a burlesque on the opera bouffe, "Pra 
Kiavolo," is given under the name of "Do All; 
or, In Merry Old England," by the Fay Foster 
Company. Glole Eller has the principal role and 
shows to alight advantage. The burlesque is good 
in spots, but the spots are few and far between. 
The choruB la large and poorly dressed. In the 
finale of the first part the girls wear pink tights 
of various shades and the footwear looks like a 
sample lot. Mlaa Eller wears a pair of blue tights 
In the opening number of the second psrt, which 
are much in need of cleaning. Beasie Phillips 
opened the olio and caused almost aa big s riot 
aa "The Clansman" did on the opening night. 
The only difference la that there was a cause 
while Bessie occupied the stage. Alaace and Lor- 
raine present a musical act that is above the 
average aeen In burlesque and do well with it. 
A person who la atyled "The Great Carroll" ap- 
peared prominently. In the first burlesque be 
playa the role of Lady Castile acceptably and aa 
an Irishwoman In the aecond burlesque be shows 
to even better advantage, but he appeara In the 
olio and inflicts a life s;ory called "Cast Asid«." 
He dresses In a manner which is deserving of 
severe criticism and the act is so absurd as to 
be simply worthless. The McCall Trio ahow some 
good dancing and the male member hns an extem. 
song which wins favor. The F'our Nelsons do a 
lot of rougbbouse work and thc.e are two clever 
tumblers who deserve the honors. Lew Leever Is 
bliled but Is said to have mysteriously disappeared. 
CASINO (Ellas & Kwnig, mgrs.).— Following 
the triumph scored by the "Majesties" last week 
comea Scribner's "Gay Masqueraders," who keep 
up the good work. Packed houses were In evi- 
dence all week and the audience went away pleased 
at each performance. James E. Cooper gives him- 
self plenty to do in "The Fixer" and "Homeward 
Bound" and with the assistance of Dave Conroy, 
Jolin J. Black, Charles Farrell and the women folk 
he keeps the audience throughout the performance. 
Lucia Cooper looks stunning In the second bur- 
lesque and with James B. captures the house 
with their olio act. Blossom Seeley and Mabelle 
Dart are a couple of the liveliest soubrettes seen 
this sfason, and In addition to their work In 
the burlesques have a "sister act" In the olio 
that la a winner. Lena I^ Couvler sings in a 
shrill voice and looks well in blue tlghta. Cooper 
has fun with the chorus in the first part, which 
won several encores. "The Watermelon Trust," 
with Gertie Miller In place of Tiny Russell, closes 
the olio, and the act proved one perp<'tual scream." 
TR(X:ADER0 (Fred Wlllson. mgr.).— With the 
exception of a new partner for Van, formerly 
Mitchell and Van. the bill presented by "The 
New Century Girla" la the same as was given at 
the BlJou earlier in the season. May Belle, Nellie 
Sylvester, Mildred Valmore and other favorites 
were welcomed by a large audience at every per- 
formance. 

LYCEUM (J. G. Jermon. mgr.).— The "Lid Lift- 
ers" entertained during the week and attracted 
well-filled houaep. 

NOTE.— Last week In reviewing "The Majes- 
ties" the Watson Sisters were credlt<»d with 
appearing In the olio, when it should have been 
Fannie Watson and Gertie DeMllt, Kitty Watson, 
the third member of the Majestic Trio. \% lying 
very ill at Rochester, N. Y. Her sister and her 
many friends in the company are looking forward 
to a speedy '•ecovery. 

PITTSBURG. PA. 

By JAS. T. TTNDALL, 

VARIETY'S Pittsburg Office. 
T^m 4th Ave.. Room 207. 

GRAND (Harry Davis, mgr.).— Ned Wayburn 
presents the dramatic sketch by Edmund Day. 
"Tlie Futnrity Winner." which la the strongest 
feature of the bill. Charley Case caught the 
crowd as nsual with his clever monologue. The 
Four Melvln Brothers have pleasing acrobatic 
act and many of their dUBcult feats have never 
been seen before In Pittsburg. Taylor Holmes 
has a delightful monologue with a bit of effective 
pathos as a flnlsh. Gertrude Mansfield and Caryl 
Wilbur have a bright sketch "No. Prospect 
Street," which makes a pronounced hit. Emma 
Berg and T. W. Eckert have a good musical act 
with artistic piano Imitations by Mr. Eckert. 
The Labakans, grotes<]ue acrobats, were pleasing 
and had a tiny dog which added to their turn 
MfCrea and Poole exhibit thrilling and dangerous 
fents of markmanshlp. Happy Jack Lisle, Jean 
Ardelle and her Pickaninnies, .\dalr and Hennery, 
Mnlu'lle Meeker and the moving pictures make 
up one of .Manager Davis' uniformly excellent 
bills. 

GAYETY (Jas. E. Orr. mgr.).— Hyde's Come- 
dians and the "Blue Ribbon Girls" have a better 
show than that o< last season. Paul Clnquevalll 
Is the star :^ttractlon. 

.ACADEMY (H. W. Williams. Jr.. mgr.).— 
"The Merrymnkers" are using Gans-Nelsr.n figlit 
pictures. Twenty of the l>est rounds are pictured. 



r.- I.!, ! BOSTON, MASS.. 

ORPHEUM (Percy Williams, mgr. L. Robinson, 
res. mgr.).— This week's bill Includes Irene T^ee 
and her "Kandy Kids." Her two boys are the 
act. Leo Carrllk). a California proiluct In Chinese 
imperacnatlon, very clever performance. Edwin 
Keooffh snd compsny In "A Bit of Blarney," fair. 



The Ckfi. K. Harris Gewier 

Devoted to the interests of Sonta and Singers. 

Address sll communlcatioBS to 

CHA8. K. HARRIS;, 81 W. Slst St.. M. T. 

(Meyer Cohen, Mgr.) 



Vol. 3. 



New York, Oct. 27, 1906. 



No. 11. 



Once more we report 
enormous success with 
"JMmewbere," sung 
by that peerless 
Metropolis Quartet, 
compoaed of Wood, El- 
lis. Hamilton and Mc- 
donald, at the Orphe- 
um Theatre, Brooklyn. 
These gentlemen have 
served a long appren- 
ticeship with Dock- 
atader's Minstrels aa 
high priced soloists 
and are more than 
duplicating their for- 
mer success. 

Dorothy Golden, the 
clever little girl with 
the big voice, la meet- 
ing with success sing- 
ing "Somewhere." 

Helen Vincent, who has 
been singing st 



Young's Pier. Atlantic 
City, the past week, 
has created quite some 
talk among the na- 
tlv<^, also among the 
vlbltoi's by hue reuJl- 
tlon of "Somewhere," 
"T b e Tale of s 
Stroll." "Just One 
Word of Consolation" 
and "A Heart To 
Let." Other publlah- 
ers take notice. 
Mr. James Aldrlch Lib- 
bey and Katherine 
Trayer last Sunday 
evening at the Dewey 
Theatre met with 
their usual successes. 
Mr. Libbey's rendition 
of "Somewhere" in 
h I s usual finished 
style was rewarded 
with tremendous ap- 
plause. 



lloey and Lee sing no less than nine parodies. 
Uratz's dogs, one of the best acta of its kind ever 
seen here. The Fourteen "Black Hussars," col- 
ored, very funny. "That Quartet" must be heard 
to be appreciated. Wm. H. Thompson, ably sup- 
ported lu "For Love's Sweet Sake," easily the hit 
of the program. 

KEITHS (E. F. Albee. gen. mgr. ) .— Uessom, 
equllibiists. a truly wonderful act. Amer'a Eng- 
lish Military Band, heralded aa the "World'a 
Greatest." We have a few of our own capable 
of comi)etIng with the best. George Evans, on 
his second week, is going even better than be did 
last week. Everhart, the hoop roller; Herr 
Graus' animals. Murphy and Frances. Milt Wood 
and Lucey and Lucler balance of the show. 

PALAt'E (Charley VValdron. mgr.).— Al Reevea* 
"Beauty Show." G(K)d company and performance. 

LYCEU.M ((ieorge Batchelder, prop, and mgr.). 
— BatcheMer's "Boston Belles." with the shapely 
Frankie Bailey and Clarence Wilbur heading the 
burle.S(|ue parts of the show. 

HOWARD (G. E. I^othrop, prop, and mgr.).— 
Mr. and .Mrs. Murk Murphy in "The Ck>al Strike," 
distinct hit and deserved a better place on the 
program. Harry Le Clair's impersonatlona never 
went better. Lillian Shaw, s witty monologue 
artiste: Al Carleton, Allen and Keeley, The 
Zarelts, Dilks and Delks. Burt Ilaviland and the 
everlasting Howard Burleaquers also appear. 

COLU.MB1A (Harry Farren, mgr.).— Watson's 
Burles(iuer8. very funny, with Watson the bright 
particular star and the following olio turns: Mil- 
lership Sisters, YonI and Fuge Yamamoto. Japan- 
ese wire performers; Charles Grade and Lew 
Reynolds. THE ROUNDER. 



ALBANY. K. T. 

PROCTOR'S (Howard Graham res, mgr. Mon- 
day rehearsal KH . — Week 22: Llnd, female Im- 
personator, is making a hit; Mr. and Mrs. Sydney 
Drew are excellent: J. K. Murray and Clara 
Lane In their musical comedietta, well received; 
Matthews and Ashley were fine; May Belfort, 
F.ngllsh songs, good; Johnny Johns, blackface 
monologlst, pleased; Count De Butx and Brother. 
come<ly bicyclists, very good; Zara and Stetson, 
baton spinners, good. EMPIRE (Thos. R. Hen- 
ry, res. mgr. ).— Week 22: Rice & Barton's com- 
pany Is holding forth here. The company In Its 

entirety Is excellent. GAIETY (H. B. Nichols, 

mgr.).— Week 22: The "Baltimore Beauties" 
have presented local thoatre-goera with a very 
good entertainment. MART'EL, 

ALLENTOWN, PA. 

ORPHEUM (Sam Myera, mgr.).— Week 22: De- 
Veaux and DeVenux, very good; FInlay and 
Burke, pleased; SIney's dog and cat pantomime, 
ple!iB«Kl greatly: Charlotte Parry, one of the best; 
Mllchell and Marron, scored; Kelley and Reno, a 
laughing hit; Chester D'Amon, continued success. 

MACK. 



ALPENA. MICH. 

MALTZ (Steele and Denlson, mgrs.).— Week 22: 
Manek Shah, magician, clever; The McDonalds, 
sketch, neat and pleased; Henry Fink, monologlst, 
got the laughs; the Murdo Trio, hit. 

GEO. J. OUELLETTB. 



ALTOONA, PA. 

ELEVENTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE (I. C. 
Mlschler, mgr.). — Knlckert)orker Stock Company 
22. 2.?. 24. 'Hie olio particularly pleasing. The 
Sisters MeConnell pleased. Billy Walsh. Little 
Gladys, George A. Douglass. Will J. Olio and 

Kardert also there. NOTE. — The New Lyric 

The.itre (L. B. Cool, mgr.) will open 29 with the 
following bill: Adelaide Herrmann and company, 
Miibcl .McKInley. Four Itlanr>s. Georgia O'Ramey. 
.M<rrea and Poole. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy. 
Taylor Holmes and Hendrix and Prescott. Book- 
ing Is done by the Keith people. C. J. 0. 

ANDERSON. IND. 

BIJOU (Davis & Hovt. mgrs.).— Opened Its 
flfors to the public 22. They have made this one 
of the prettiest houses in the circuit; opened with 
a po*Hl bill. Frank Dun. tramp comedian, was 
fair: lliree Mosqunria Sisters, singing and danc- 
ing, very goo<l; Margaret Orayce, comedienne, 
sroo<l; the Buckeye Trio, danclns and acrobatic 

work, besf «(.en here in a long time. CRYSTAL 

(J. W. McEwen. mgr.).— Week 22: Wright and 
Kay, Irish comedians, fair; Fanny Plnmb. sing- 
ing' and dancing soubrette. very good; Llndley..and 
Bell, singing snd dancing, well received. 

0HA8. H. BWING. 



▼ ARICTT 



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APPLSTOV, Wli, 

BUOU XR. LetKMi. mgr. Monday rehearsal 
11.) — Flaber and Johnson, bicyclists, Terj good; 
Om>. W. Stewart, hit; Benlngton Brothers, rings, 
cleTer; Qujr's **Parlor Minstrels," out of the 
ordlBsrj, Tery good; Alice Saylor, Illustrated 

sougs. NOTE. — The BlJou Theatre will only 

change once a week Instead of twice as formerly. 
This Is done to secure the acts that will not 
play spilt weeks. O. KOHLBR. 

BALTIMORE. MB. 

MARYLAND (F. C. Schanberger. mgr.).— 
Popgo and Leo. coinody acrobats, good; Mabelle 
Adorns, violin, excellent; Norton and Nicholson 
In "Rlla^s All Right." Tery fonny; Le Brun 
Ornnd Opera Trio. e8perlally flue; Fred Ray, 
travesty, good; Bilnore Sisters, very good; Ber- 
Esc's animals, very good. ALBAUOH'S PAL- 
ACE (J. Albert Young, bus, mgr.). — Emmy's 
Pets, good: Marguerite Fiske. songs, good; Ken- 
nedy and Rooney. especially good; "Who's Safe," 
stock skotrh, well presented and received; Robert 
Hilllard and company In "As a Man Sows," 
i-nthusiaHtlcally received; Stuart BarneH, monol- 
ogist, good; Barbor- Ritchie Trio, comedy 

eyelids, floe. GAYBTY (Wra. A. Ballauff. 

D'gr.). — "The Parisian W1«1owb." Both the open- 
ing aitd closing pieces were above the ordinary, 
and the well-contumcd chorus added much to Its 

brightness. MONUMENTAL (Sam Dawson. 

mgr.). — "Twentieth Century Maids" elicited much 

favorable coiument and applause. TRAY- 

MORB CASINO (Frank Keidel, mgr.).— The fol- 
lowing artists appear this week: Fralley and 
Fralley, sketch team, very good; Lowman Sisters, 
song and dance, vpry good; Mabel May. song 
and dance, fair; AJax. sword swallower, fair; 

Margaret Welsner. song and dance, good. 

KHMLINO'S MUSIC HALL (August Khmllng. 
mgr.). — Annt O'Nell. fair; Mamie Schlelds, bari- 
tone, good; Irene Delmore, songs and dance, 
good; Whistling Raymond, good; The Hedges, 
c(;medy sketch, good. SYLVANUS. 



BAY CITY. MICH. 

ALVARADO (Sam Marks, mgr.).— Cassina Sut- 
ton and company In "Love In a Tangle." fair; 
Esmeralda, xylophonist. clever and entertaining; 
M«xi8 and Mexis ("The Clown and the Dog"), 
fair; Lillian ClIfTord, singer, good; Mauley and 
Sterling, songsters, pleasing; The Bellefonts, 

head balancing, good. BIJOU (Dan Pllmore. 

mgr.). — Musical Seelcg, fair; Evans Trio, three 
girls, clover dancers, well received; McKlnnon 
and Reei, comedians and dancing, good act, full 
of life; York Herbert Trio, feature, laugh from 
start to finish. DAVE A. LANDAU. 



BINOHAMTOK, N. T. 
ARMORY (H. A. Bailey, mgr. Monday re- 
heorsal 10),— Week 22: Ed Estus, equilibrist, 
good: BIr. and Mrs. Jimmie Barry, many encores; 
Biirnato and Dlas, singers, much applause; Sny- 
der .ind Buckley, musical, in their new act, "The 
Str«et Singers.'' good; Lena Ttiarber, good; the 
Three Mcers, wire, fair, comedy ordinary; Walters 
and Ptout^. come<lians, one cotitinual laugti; 
received many encores. JOGGBRST. 

BIRMINGHAM. ALA. 
OAIETY (E. A. McArdle, mgr. Monday re- 
liearsal 10).— "IUmj Tons"; The Monte Carlo GlrN. 
good; Frances Clare, pretty soubrette; Browning 
and Bentley took the house; Tralnor and Dale, 
fair; Pierson and Opp. good; Young Brothers, 

mr.de a hit. MAJESTIC (F. G. Parry, mgr. 

Monday rehearsal 10). — Cunning, the Jail breaker, 
goo«l; Hinim, P.nmm. Brrr, fair; Pero and Wilson, 
g«io<l; Harry .\ntrlm and Yetta Peters, good. 

NAT WILLIAMS. 



BUFFALO. N. T. 

SHEA'.S (M. Shea. mgr. Rehearsals 10).— Week 
22: The Josselin Trio, novelty trapeze act, took 
well; llie Holdsworths, song and dance, fair; 
Lew Bloom and Jane Cooper, good; Julian Rose. 
Hebrew mimic, fine; Fred Walton in "Cissie's 
Dream." great production; CliflTord and Burke, ap- 
plause; The Four Ilarveys, marvellous on the wire. 

GARDEN (M. Shea. mgr. Rehearsal 10).— 

Week 22: Dorothy's piMMlIes, pleased; Ida Russell, 
vocalist. gtxMl; Estelle Wordette and company, 
loughing sketch; "Chalk" Saunders. goo<l; C. H. 
Iluolla, asslst«>d by Mile. Iluella, tricks In magic, 
excellent; Stinson and Merton, hit; Archie and 

Crocker, goo<l comedy acrobats. LA FAYETTE 

(Chas. M. Bagg, local mgr.).— Week 22: "Miss 
New York" well received and well cast: Chas. J. 
Burkhardt taking the leading part. Chorus well 
costumed and singing good. "Innocent Maids" next 

week. LINN'S (Dr. Linn, mgr.).— Week 22: 

Bill one of credit. The Sisters Millar, song and 
dance, fine; John D. Ferguson, comedlsn. fair; 
Harry Reed In songs, pleased. DICKSON. 



BURLINOTOK. lA. 
GARRICK (J. M. Root, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
1:.%).— W>ek 22: Shannon and Straw, headllners, 
clever; Lindstrom and Anderson, comedy acrol)ats, 
very good; Pope and his trick dog. strong hit; 
Chas Howlson, mimic and whistler, good; Chas. 

Hay, Illustrated songs, scored heavily. GRAND 

OPERA HOUSE (Chamberlln-Harrington Co., 
mgrs.). — I^w Dockstader Minstrels, 17. MADI- 
SON AVE. PARK (E. L. Phipps. mgr.).— Vaude- 
ville season closed 6. Park still open for dancing. 

D. G. C. 



CLEVELAND, OHIO. 

KEITH'S (H. A. Daniels, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 11).— Week 22: The Four NIghtons. 
clever acrobatics; Sam Watson's Farmyard. goo<l. 
Clayton White and Marie Stuart have a new 
sketch. "Cabby No. 415." It lacks the clever- 
ness of their former one. But specialties carry 
it to success. Ne<l Nye and his "Rollicking 
Girls." hit: KIngsley and I^ewls in "After the 
Hotieymoon"; Lily Seville, comedienne; Majestic 
Trio, colored, and Burke and Dempsey. come- 
dians, also appeared. LYRIC (C. H. Peckham 

mgr. Monday rehearsal 11).— Week 22: Mattle 
Keene and company, well received; Bnnth and 
Rudd, hit; Charles Kenna, amusing; Maude Rock- 
well, good: Bert Marshal. Anglous and Melano. 
KanfTman Sisters, Howe and Edwards and Master 
Cummlnfi, ■oloiit, filled tb» bUl. STAB (Drew 



ft Campbell, mgrt.).— "The Brigadier*." EM- 
PIRE (Chas. W. Denxinger. mgr.).— Week 22: 
"Golden Crook" company. Show the tame aa last 
year, excepting olio. 

WALTER D. BOLCOMB. 



COLXTMBUS. 0. 



SHUBERT (P. R. MlUer. mgr.).— Week 21: 
William Morris' "All Star" bill gives to Colum- 
bus vaudeville lovers a treat that will long he 
remembered. Marsciilea. contortionist, took 

well; Al Lawrence, comedHin', pleases; Banka- 
Breazeale Duo. musical, much liked; Gilday and 
Fox, Hebrew comedians, scored; Eph Tliompson's 
elephants, big; Grace Cameron, well received; 
Fred Kamo'fl "A Night In an English Music 
Hall" was eaally the feature. E. R. SPBRRY. 



DAVENPORT. lA. 

FAMILY (Wellington Martin, mgr. Monday re- 
heuraal 9:30). — Brandt and Larano, sketch, goo<l; 
Kuiily Wait, monologue and Hinging, fair; Leon- 
ard and Lonis, acrobats, ordinary; Kathryn Mar- 
tyn, illustrated songs, fine; Robert Nome, whistler. 

pleaFed; (»eorge Austin, comedy wire, funny. 

i:i.ITE (Chas. Berkell. mgr. Monday rehearsal 
11). — Cearer .and company, magic, well received; 
Vardaman, "The Auburn-haired Beauty," pretty; 
Ia'Usl Kline, lUnstrated songs, great; Carberry and 
Stanton, comedy sketch, liked; Harry W. Spin- 
gold and company, aketch, "A Handsome Stran- 
ger," very mediocre. ORPHEON (Oscar Raph- 
ael, nigr. Monday rehearsal 1:30).— -Stanley and 
Scanlon, musical comedy, good; Ames and I.iamh, 
singing and dancing, fair; La Carmenetta. contor- 
tionist, good; Juggling Thorns, excellent; Curran 
and De Grey, sketch, ordinary; Ameta. Oriental 
dancer, goood. LEO B. GRABBB. 
DE8 MOINES, LA. 

EMPIRE (M. J. Karger, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 11).— Week 22: Bill headed by the 
"Marvellous Tatam," who offers a very clever 
act In mind-reading; Harry Vaiois, good; Kim- 
ball Brothers, well received; Polly and Ethel 
Huxel pleased Id their musical sketch; James 

D. Ray, fine, and Martynne closed. FOSTER'S 

(Wm. Fosfter, mgr.). — I>ew Dockstader's Min- 
strels. Ifl. TTie performance was an Improvement 

o%er last year's. NOTES. — Reese V. Prosser. 

for many years connected with the Al G. Field 
organisation. Is now with the Dockstader show. 
Capacity business. — The Yankee Robinson Circus, 
owned by Fred Buchanan, of Des Moines, closed 
Its se.nson at Earlham, la., Oct. d. — Yvette 
Guilbert will givp a concert at the Auditorium 
Oct. ."^l.- The Kilties' Canadian Band comes to 
the Auditorium Oct. 28. — Manager M. J. Karger 
of the FJmpire Theatre Is In New York booking 
nttractionf. — The Orton Bros.' Circus will close 
Its season soon and then go Into winter quarters 
at Des Moines. This prosperous little wagon show 
will be enlarged for the coming season. — Tliere 
is a little circus opposition In Mexico City. The 
Norrls A Rowe Circua is playing a month's en- 
gagement there and the Sells-Floto Show opens 
In the Mexican capital next Monday. 

H. V. REAVER. 



DETROIT, MICH. 

TEMPLE (J. H. Moore, mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10).— Week 22: Geo. Fuller Golden head- 
lined. His stories were appreciated immensely. 
The Zingari Troupe pleases. Dan Burke and his 
"School Girls," clever singing and dancing. 
Claire Bossy's cats, good. Cooper and Robin- 
son, colored, went well. Douglas and Ford, song 
and dance, fair. Rhodes and Carter, acrobats, 
pleased, and the Moullere Sisters, horizontal bar 

act, received much applause. CRYSTAL (Jno. 

Nash, mgr. Monday rehearsal 11).— Dowiing and 
Davis, features, giving three sketches, decided 
hit in "Mrs. Barnm's Baby." Gilbert Sarony. 
goo<1. The Rlsleys. acrobats, fair. Ida Howell, 
singliiu eomedlenne. several encores, and Anson 

Tscherhart. Illustrated songs. AVENUE (Drew 

& Campbell, mgrs.), — Sam Devere's Own Com- 
pany. Andy Lewis and a company Including a 
goo<l sinsing and dancing chorus. "Two burlesques 
are given, in which I.iewis makes a hit In his 

Hebrew character. The olio Is good. GAYETY 

(Harry H. Hedges, mgr.). — Rice A Barton's "Rose 
Hill Folly" company. George Rice, chief fun- 
maker. The chorus is large and well trained, 
llie specialties are given during the action. 

LEO LESTER. 



EA8T0N, PA. 

LYRIC (Reninger & Brown, props. Monday re- 
hearsal 10:30).— Week 22: Francis Wood with his 
hoops, good; Sisters Noble, song selections, 
pleased; Duchunt and his four doge, pleased; Fitz- 
gerald and Gilday, scored; Thomas and Payne, 
colored entertainers, received liberal applause; 
Cherry and Bates, trick and comedy cyclists, 

proved the favorites. ABLE OPERA HOUSE 

(W. K. Detwlller, mgr.).— Primrose Minstrels 19, 
Introducing a company of excellent singers an*! 
dancers. Ed Chappell, Interlocutor. Secoi«l part 
pleased. MAC. 



ERIE, PA. 

MAJESTIC (Frank M. Clark, mgr.).— Week 22: 
Trixie Frigansa with her imitations as headliner. 
Went big. Eugene O'Rourke and company. In 
"Parlor A," good; Dacey, Chase and Adair In 
"The Irish Uncle's Visit." fair; Byers and Her- 
man, acrobatics, far above ordinary; Malvene and 
ITiomas, goo<l "sister act"; Tliree Splllera, musi- 
cal, good; Abdallah Ben Hamadl Trio, clever 
Arabian acrobats. L. T. BERLINER. 



FINDLAY, 0. 

MARVIN (L. H. Cunningham, mgr.).— Week 
22: Robert-Demont Trio, acrobats, good: Fox and 
Miner, comedians, fslr; Hy Greenway. juggler 
and cartoonist, good: The McCarvers. singers and 

dencers. fair; Joe Golden, nionologist. fair. 

GRAND (Harry II. Lammint. mgr.).— C. Gaylor, 
pvninsst. average; Barker and Barker, dancers, 
fair. SAM. 



PORT WAYNE, IND. 

TEMPLE (F. E. Stouder. mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 10.).— Week 22: Fredo and Dare, musical 
comedians, flne; Ottrleton and Terr*, slnffliif 



comedians, good; Woods and Woods, wire, excel- 
lent; Williama and Mayer comedy duo, ordinary; 
and Marie Rulfson, "medium." good 

DE WITTB. 

OALESBimO. ILL. 

GAIETY (J. H. Holmes, mgr.). -Week 22: 
McDutr, monologist, good; Ames and Feathers, 
acrobats, hit; George Muudweiler, illustrated 
songs, excellent; Van Der Koors, comedy magi- 
cians, tig hit; Maude Delmur, singing, pleased; 

Ameta. mirror dances, fine. BIJOU (F. E. 

rnjden, mgr.). — Half week 22: Florence Snow, 
singer, piease^l; Patchln Brothers. acrobats, 
good; R>wldon. tramp juggler, ordinary; Jarvis 
and Tudor, sketch, hit. F. E. R. 

GRAND EAPID6, MICH. 

GRAND OPEHA HOCSB (L. Newcomb. res. 
mgr. Monday rehearsal 10).— Week 22: Kkin. Ott 
Brothers and Nicholson have a strong musical act. 
Owing to their wardrobe trunk not arriving on 
tlm** they pluyed the first two petformanoes In 
their street clothes, llie Dancing Howards o|>ened 
the bill with clever dancing. Marion and Deane 
are clever comedian and comedienne. Mr. and 
Mrs. Gottlob presented "(iovernment Bonds," 
which was well roeelved. Elliot. Belair and El- 
liott, good acrobatic stunts. Bemlce and Boy in 
songs and dances were well received, especially 
the boy. Guy Johnson In illustrated songs, good. 

C. II. HALLMAN. 



QREEN BAY. WIS. 

BIJOU (Frank Williams, mgr.).— Week 22: Gir- 
lie Thompson, soubrette, a winning individual but 
poor voice; Carlisle and 'Marleur, sketch, gmHl; 
Wharton and Le Roy. comedians, pleased; F. 
Williams. Uiiistrnted song; Fischer snd Johnston, 
cycling, good A. B. BODENHEIMER. 



PA. 



FAMILY 
—Week 22 

good: The 
MattiiewH, 
Fanchetti. 
with great 



HAZLETON, 

(Harry Hersker, mgr. Rehearsal 10). 
Una Clayton and company headliner, 
Vyn^s. mn-icn! farmyard, fslr; T. H 
illustrated songs, goo<i; Robertson and 
fair; George Hoyt, comedian, greeted 
applause. G. W. K. 



INDLANAPOLIB. IND. 



GRAND (Shafer Ziegler, mgr.).— Anna Eva 
Fay In her "thought reading" exhibition mystified 
the audiences. Willn Holt Wakefield " scored 
heavily with an crtistlc offering. Next to Anna 
Eva, Miss Wakefield was tlie- hit «rf the bill. 
The Eight Vassnr Girls have a gorsl musleal act. 
Others were: The Wahlun-Tekla Trio, gymnasts; 
Fthel Robinson; the Swor Brothers, negro im- 
perfonators, .<ind Carson and Wlllard. the German 
Next week the Grand will have 
English ventriloquist, and popular 
Semon. the musleal funmaker.— — 
(FJdward Shayne, mgr.). — "Vanity 
Fair" Burlesquers played this house for three 
matinees and nights, oitenlng Tliursday. EM- 
PIRE (Chas. Zimmerman, mgr.).— Rellly Woo«ls 
show returned to this theatre for Its second en- 
giigement of the season \v»»ek '^•et. 82. nie two 
burlettas were well liked. LOUIS' WESLYN. 



comedians. 
C<iram, the 
Charles F. 
GAYETY 



JACKSON, MICH. 
BIJOU (E. J. Cox. mgr.).— Week 22: Bill head- 
ed hy Cowles Trio of acrobats, followed by Tralnor 
and Mohler. comedians; Florence Fitch, songs; 
I»u Knetcner. juggler, and Alice Thompson, sing- 
ing soubrette, all well received. 

E. A. WERNER. 



JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 
MAY'S (Allen May. mgr.). — Tlila cozy bouse 
opened 20. Gives a continuous performance. 
Week 22: Spencer and Jones. Allen May and 
moving pictures. Business capadtv since open- 
ing. L. T. BERLINER. 



JERSEY CITY, N. J. 

BON-TON (T. W. Dinkins. mgr.).— Week 22: 
Frank B. Carr's "Thoroughbre«l8" in ofiening bur- 
iesijue. "A (Jood Run for Your Money." In 
oli<»: Mile. La Toska, contortionist, well re- 
ceived; Carroll Henry and Nellie Francis In 
"New Janitor." satisfied: Charles Niblo and Dan 
T. Rellly in eccentric dancing, made hit: Blanche 
Washburn and Joule Flynn In songs and dances, 
made hit with their act; I.«urent Trio (woman 
and two m«*n) introduced a new turn to their 
act and did well. Closed with "llie Union Man." 
giving Carroll Henry and Harry McAvoy a good 
opjtortunity to make several laughs, and they 
did. STTow as a whole seemed to |)lease audience. 
Next week: "Wasliington Society Belles." 

PETE. 



JOLIET, ILL. 

(illANI) (I^ Goldberg, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
2). — Week 22: Ansel and Doraln open the show 
In a iiovf'lty head anti han«l balancing a"t. I<ee 
Jarvis Is a pleasing singer. Rand and Byron are 
fair. The dancing of the Mnh(»npy Brothers Is 
good. Chas. Crossman sings agreeably. The hit 



Cobb's Comer 

OCTOBER 27, 1904. 



No. 36. A Weekly Word With WILL thm Wordwright. 

The Song-wrifing feam of 

Cobb and Edwards has 

coased to be 

Who's got a good melody? 

PAVL BARNES PLEASK WRITE 

WILL D. COBB 

WOmttOHIGHT 



I 



1410 Broadivaj^ 



of the week is Robert WUittier and company In 
"Tangled Relations." A. J. STEVENS. 



ORPHEUM 

Norman. Six 
Oiiveira Trio. 
Roattino and 

Hayward. 

mgr. ) . — "Dreamland 
titled "Roseland." 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 

(Martin Lehman, mgr.). — Mary 
Proveanles. S'mith and Chamell, 
Frank Gardner and I.<ottle Vincent, 
Stevens and Hayward, Conroy ^nd 
.'RNTl^KY (Joseph U. lionegan, 
Burlesquers" In a skit en- 
Good bill and performance. 



MAJESTIC (E. H. Goo<lwln. 

Bachelor's Club" week 22. Good 



mgr.).— "The 
entertainment. 
FAIRPLAY. 



KENOSHA. WIS* 

BIJOU (F. J. O'Brien, mgr. Monday rehearsal 
KM. First hiilf week l.'S: A. L. (Jhaplin. piano 
selections; Denton and Denton, norelty Jumpers 
and contortionists, very good; Mills, Impersonator, 
big hit; tile Carters have a change in their act, 
ami It gfM'-* bigger than ever under the title 
"Kate's Visitor"; Lavender, Richardson and com- 
pany close the bill with a very clever sketch en- 
titled "Brady's Itoy." Second half: Denton and 
DiMiton. novelty, big hit; Thompson Trio, refined 
musical act. fo big; Joe Goodwin, monologist, 
hit of the bill. Lavender Richardson and company 
close the show. AL NICTHOLS. 



LONDON, CANADA. < 

BENNETT'S VAUDEVILLE (G. F. Drlscoll. 

res. mgr.).— Week 22: Asher and Patterson, good 
dnnelng; Mnoney and IIolb«-in. well received; Ray 
Cox. diale<>t comexlienne, fair; FitzgiblMMi-McCoy 
Trio. "The Mischievous Brother," the best langh- 
pnxlucer yet; I/ewis .McC-ord and company in "Her 
liflFt RehearsRl." a fine Mt of work and well 
n'celved: Buckeye Four, fair; Csrdona and Lions, 
very g.Ksl. FRED HUF^STON. 



LOUISVILLE, KY. 

HOPKINS (W. .M. Resldant, mgr.).— Tlie Mu- 
KH al Avolos, excellent; Linu Pnntzer on the 
bounding wire, assiated hy Tommy, very clever. 
Dillon Brothers render a number of comic spngs 
of their own eoinposing very creditably; Daffy, 
fiautclle and DuflTy In a comedy sketch, fair; 
Murray K. Hill, a monologist of unusual ability; 
('has. .Serva. etpillibrlHtic art. Is very gotsi. 

CHAS. SYLVESTER. 



MARION, IND. 

CRYSTAL (J. II. AmnioD. prop. Rehesrssl 10). 
-Week 10: Umega Duo, German comedy, very 
go<»d; Shnrpley and Fl.^nn, Irish comedians, 
pleased; Risinor, the feature, was not at his 
iH'St. owing to a number of small accidents; 
Ruth Smith. Illustrated songs, pleased. 

L. C. WETZBL. 



MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 

t»RPilEUM (Martin Beck, gen. mgr. Sunday 
rehearsal 10-,10>. — Ur»se Coghlan in ""The Ace of 
Trumps" held interest In spite of lack of action; 
Edward Clark and "Winning Widows"— reduced 
to ftHir by sudden «llsappearance of two Friday 
night — goo<l musical art; Three .^slstei-s Camaras. 
good; Trovollo, good ventriltMpilal act; Arthur 
Ueiiilng. kIioms effects of a vacation; Teriey. good 
and novel Impersonation act; CHiarles Siiarp. good. 

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MOVTBBAL, CAB. 

THBATBB BOYAL <H. C. Bfferton, mfr.).— 
Waak 23: "Tb« ParUlao Belles." Good vaode- 
Tllle and good crowd. The best show yet. 8bep- 
ard Camp and Al Rice, good. Olio is refln^ and 
went big. Mildred Glover, Reba Donaldson. Bbep- 
ard Camp. Daly and O'Brien and l^mers snd 

Law desenre the credit. NOTE.— Al B. Bead, 

comadlan and character singer, mansger of Riv- 
erside Park, opened 21 at MaiHoneuTe (subarb) 
an entertainment venture. "Readoscope" to 
standing room. Light ▼audevUle namt)era and 
tbe beat motion pictures seen here are given. Mr. 
Read la conadent of success snd bis opening 
week proves flstterlng. He ban shown s thorough 
business method In msnaging vsudevllle here last 
four seasons snd his friends are still with him 
la bla peraonal ventora. AL M. PBBNT188. 



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MUMCIB, Dn>. 

STAR.— Week 22: Bennett and Sterling, 
comedj sketch artists, good; Blllj Tan, tbe danc- 
ing man, very good; Burkbartt and Barry, comedy 
alnglng and talking act, received good applause; 
Prank Gray, good; Prof. Drake'a faaova troope 
•f maaieal dofa mada a food Idt. 

GEO. FlfBB. 



NEW BEDPOBD. MABB. 

HATHAWAY'S (T. B. BayUea. mgr.).— Tbe 
show thla week la disappointing, viewed from 
the high standard of vsudevllle so far aet by the 
bouse. The most meritorious acta are tbe excel- 
lent acrobatic specislty by tbe Pantaer Trio, 
which closes the show, and the fine operatic sing- 
ing by Germinal, the French baritone. Bmmonds, 
Emerson snd Emmoods style their act "Only a 
Joke," but It is not; Lllllsn Maynard, singing 
comedienne, ordlnsry; Altbea bisters, singers snd 
dancers, ordinary; Uolman Brothers, good comedy 
scrobstlc act; Barry Coraon Clarke is occasion- 
ally funny in tha feature act, "Strategy." 

, / KNOT. 



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HEW HAVEN. CONN. 
roU'S (S. Z. Poll, prop.; P. J. WIndlsch. res. 
mgr. RehearsslR 10).— Week 22: Welch. Mealy 
and Montrose were enjoyed; Roland West gave 
some very clever character dellneatlona. Tlje 
dainty little comedienne Zena Kelffe was enter- 
Uining; Ferry Ck>wfrey was generooaly encored; 
some except ionslly clever casting wss done by 
the Dnffln-Redcay Troupe; Harry Brown and De 
Lores were good In a ainglBf and cartoon apedal- 
tyt Praaoaaca Baddlag plaaaad. B. J. TODD. 



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Lion aad Dog Olrena. 

OOBBUCT A OONLST. 

VIBBB AND BOBDOVEZ. 

AL. OABLETON. 

JOHN P. CLABZ. HABBT XILO. 

SPECIAL FBATrRE. 

COOK AND BTLVIA, 
Iry, Delmar and Ivy. Murphy and Palmer. 
Martin and Eldgway. Jobn Walab. 
Will and May Reno. 
EXTRA ATTRACTION, 

8TINE AND ETANB. 

New York Theatre 

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New York City 

Largaat and moat saeoaasfal 
sohool of tha kind ia New Tork. 

New acta rebearsed and whipped Into abape. 
Vaudevllla acta, dancea, aketcbsa, ate, taught. 
1.000 successful pupils now on tba atage. Send 
foe Illustrated booklet. 

NEW OBLEANS, LA. 

ORPHRUM (Martin Beck, gen. mgr.).— Week 
22: Hickman Brothers, ordinary; Reilf Brothers, 
singers and dancers, fair; Latioa, fair; Wilson 
Drotbers, German, hackneyed; Wilfred Clark and 
company, "No More Trouble," excellent; Vernon, 
ventriloquist, fair; Avon Comedy Four, "The 

New Teacher," good. GRBENWALL (H. 

Oreenwall. mgr.).— Week 21: "Dainty Ducbeas." 
Good show and fine olio. Next week: "Bon 
1\)DS." O. M. 8AMDBL. 




PAWTUCKET, B. L 

NEW PAWTUCKET.— Week 22: Oora Evelyn, 
singing and baton Juggling, good; Tbe Davis, 
pleased; Joe HsrriiH)n, magic, fair; Hebert and 
KcHtcrs, dsncing, best ever seen in these parts; 
La Bells, songs, good; Ben Johnson, "rube" vio- 
linist, great; Three De Bollena, aerobe ta, One. 

NICK. 

PIQUA, 0. 

BIJOU (McCarty A Ward. mgrt.. Monday re- 
hearsal 10:30.— Week 22: Jay Alet, comedy Jng 
gler. fair; Jobn and Mamie Conroy, comedy eketcb 
artists, a very neat act; Mrs. Scbensult, good; 
Tbe Caodes bisters. Germsn singers, s hit; Harry 
CatUn, "By Myself." very good; Tbe Drskoa re- 
calved liberal applause. SAM. B. HIXSON. 



i» N, » » 

FAMILY (B. B. Sweet, rea, mgr. Monday ra- 
haaraal laSO).— Weak SB: Stalaart aad Thomaa, 
Oarmaa ■ nm s dl s a a. food; OaaU la tka Mg kit. 



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"Taylor" atampad aa all tha Iraa trlmmiaga. 

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her festa of contortion and strength sre wonder- 
ful; the act Is well staged. LeRoy Sisters, com- 
edy act, "Use Lane la Here," good; Mr. and 
Mra. Sidney Eeynolda, sketch. "Mlsa Steno," 
hit; Carle Cook, blackface comedian, good but a 
little overdone; LeRoy Benson snd company, nov- 
elty musical act, very good. 



PBOYIDENCZ. B. L 

KBITH'S (Chas. I»venberg, res. mgr.).— 
Master Gshrlel snd his dog sre the besdiiners 
of 8 fsirly bslsnced bill. Toby Clsude. sitbniigh 
suifering from a severe cold, wsa well received. 
World snd Kingston are easily one of tbe bits of 
tbe bill. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hughes present s 
one-set comedy. "SoppresHing the Press." snd 
do good work. Bsiley snd Austin, bit bit. Fred 
snd Tanley. pleased. Dsve Lewis, rosrs of Isugb- 
ter. Bill concluded with Proraptnn Trio, fsir; 

MUe. Velo, fsir; Stella snd Bernler, good. 

IMPERIAL (Leon H. Cortln. mgr.).— The nlio is 
tba chief feature of "The Jolly Grass Widows." 

8. M. 8. 



BACINB, WIS. 

BIJOU (Wm. C. TIede, mgr. Mondsy sod 
Thursdsy rehesrssia 9:80.) — Tbe Grest Austins, 
fine; Morelsnd snd Leigh, comedlsns. good; W. 
J. Mills, impersonstor, very good: tbe Csrtera,- 
muslcsl, plessed; Hsrry Newmsn, comedlsn, 
funny; Clark and Temple, comedy sketch, gnod; 
Tom Powell, good; Pndoa, Perry and Wilbur, 
mnaleal, alasara, faatora, bit Good appearance 

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To UM Otb«n' Mothoda Wa dltdaia. 

Bemembor this when Ton m* 0« aame. 

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ANIMAL AND CIRCUS ACTS 




Performera doinf two different aota preferred for enraffements next ■nmmer. 

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The Dancer with the Chair 

MILT WOOD 

Singing and dancing specialty in ''One/' with an original ''chair dance." 

A sure fire hit on any bill or any place on any bill. Keith's Theatre. Providence, 
R. I.. October xsth. What the Providence papers said October i6: Morning Tribune— 
"MILT WOOD, the gentlemanly wooden shoe dancer, has lost none of his ability in that 
line, and his specialty is of a high grade order." 

News Democrat — "While similar hearty appreciation was bestowed upon MILT 
WOOD, the wooden shoe dancer, and by far the best in his line. WOOD had a number 
of new steps of a very difficult nature." ; . ; 

Evening BuUetin— "MILT WOOD gives a skillful demonstration of wooden shoe 
buck dancing with triple time steps, including novel tricks with a chair." 
BOOKED SOLID UNTIL MAY. This Week, Keith's . Boston, Mass. 

LONDON "MUSIC HALL*' 

U/>€ Great English Vaudeville Taper (W^^Kty) 
14 LEICESTEK ST^ LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, W^ ENG. 

R ssr sst ftUtive— Miss Ida KL Carls, Room 708, St. Imbm Buildiag, wkcrs 
tils •! SSMTS can W ^mm and advcrtiaamcnts wilJ be NccivW 





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ay. Vow Yeth 0ft7. 



READDTG, PA. 
OBPHBUM (Frank V. Bill, mgr.).— 22-aT: Ar- 
llDKton and Helaton. dancing act. fair; BeU Trio, 
alnglng and dancing act, fair; Bertie Heron, "The 
lilnatrel lliaa." pleased; Tom Nawn and company 
receired with marked favor; Almoot and Domont 
do an entertaining musical act; Howard and 
North in "Thoee Were Happy Days" hare a good 
act, bat it ia too long drawn out. Caron and 
Famam do a clever acrolwitlc act and were liked. 

• BIJOU (Updegraff A Brownell, mgra.).— 22- 

24: Irwin'a "Majeatica," fair show. BuRlneae 
very bad. 20-27: Scribner'a "Morning Glorlea, 
well liked, bat their boaineaa wae extremely 
Ugbt KELLY. 

ROCHESTER, H. Y. 
COOK OPERA noiTSE (W. B. McCallnm. 
mgr.).— Week 22: "Crickets," "girl act." went 
big. Edoain and Edwards, fair: Jack Wilson 
and companr kept an<llence conntantly amused; 
Flelde and Wooley. fair; Seymour and Hill, well 
liked; Miss I-^oeser. local, found favor, and Del- 
torelli and Qliasando weU received. 



SCHNECTADY, H. Y. 

MOHAWK (Jos. L. Weber, res, mgr.). — Week 
22: Kennedy and Qaattrell, clown Jngglers, very 
good; Amane and Hartley in "The Nangbty Pro- 
fessor," decidedly ordinary; the Five Ciolambians 
in "A Bit of Dresden Cblna," well pre- 
sented; Will Archie, America's midget comedian, 
fair; Hermann the Great, magician, very good, 
but slow on bis illusions; Hallen and Hayes, 
comedians, managed to please; Delmore and Lee, 
gymnastic marvels, very good. MABTBL. 



: ■ ' SCRANTOH. PA. 

STAR (AI. O. Herrington, mgr.). — Williams 

"Ideals," good. FAMILY (W. W. Ely, mgr. 

Monday rehearsal 10:80). — Week 22: Zaino, "the 
little wlsard." good; Amy Ames and company, 
great; KeLsey Moore, fair; Zinell and Boatefl, 
tine; Mrs. and Gen. Tom Thumb, assisted by 
Count and Baron Magri, fair; Frank Cnsbman, big 
hit. JACK DB HAAS. 



BAGIKAW, MICH. 
JEFFFRS* (Chester Sargent, res. mgr. San- 
day rehearsal 10>.— Week 21: Eicellent bill. Main 
attraction. Prince Okabe and M* troape of 
"Eight Boyal Japanese Entertainers." Fred 
L«-nnox and company in "On His Uppers," an 
idyll in slang by Oeorge Ade. well received. Fay 
Durbyelle. the ahadowgraph artist, did well. Ful- 
ton and Sandis In comedy sketch were generously 
applauded. Nest and Benton, singers and dancers, 
•cored. NENNO. 



SAN AHTONIO, TEX. 

MAJESTIC (T. W. Mullaly. mgr. Sanday re- 
hearsal 9:80).— Week 21: Haw Slaters, slngera 
and dancers, good performers and caught on big; 
Oeorge R. Beane and Edith Forreet, big hit; 
Aagast Snowball, coon shonter, good; Martini and 
Maximinian. Uagbs from start to flnlah; WiU H. 
Fox, comedian, the feature of the show and a 
ttroag card; "Tbe Lady Bneeaneera," a JWm* "ft 

•ad i» to the staadafC OAb OOBM. 



SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

POLT'S (Gordon Wrigbter, res. mgr. Monday 
rehearsal 10). — Some good features here week 22. 
Bill headed by Mabel McKlnley. who waa en- 
thnslantlcally received. Emmett Devoy and com- 
pany In "The Saintly Mr. Blllfngs" canaed solid 
langhter. "The Village Cbolr." big hit. SIdman 
and Shannon In "The Astrologer." first rate 
novelty. "The Magls Boot," aoccesBful number. 

Powell -Cottrell Troupe, fine equestrienne act. 

NEIJ«ON (Geo. H. Miller, res, mgr.).— Second 
week of vaudeville was better than first. Paallne 
Hall and Thoman Q. Seabrooke In "The Footllght 
Favorite," artistic bit: Ed. Blondell In "The 
LoHt Boy." pleasing; Chris Rlchardn. an amualng 
comedian; George Thatcher and Charlee Ernest, 
mlnntrels. very good; Vlnle Daly, excellent; 
the Ileuman Trio, expert cycylsts; Billy CllflFord, 
hit; Valbni, good. FBANK MAO DONALD. 



ST. LOirii. MO. 

It is aboot the same old sixes and sevens aa to 

the billa that are offered in St. Loola this week. 

No great Improvement la apparent or promised. 

OoloBbU Is haek a paes, bat the VtaadsfS has 



improved, so score la even. At the Gayety (Rose 
Sydell'a) Vera Harte ia making Jnst as good as 
is Koee Sydell. It is easy to state that the man- 
agement may rely upon Mias Harte at any time 
to fill any position or star for herself with sac- 
cess. The general outlook la anything bat satis- 
factory for good business. The chorua work pre- 
sented recently has been all of the same charac- 
ter, small In numbers and inferior in quality. 
Lack of ability and rehearsal has t>een very evi- 
dent to the most Inexperienced eye. 

This ia a genuine "knock," for many who see 
the shows in Chicago, playing to small bouses 
and packed chorns, complain when the situation 
is reversed in their home town at the next ap- 
pearance of the same show. These persons spread 
the newa and It is telling on the attendance. If 
the present policy of "almost rotten" continues 
to be the vogue at local bouses it is safe to say 
that bURlnesa will not even Juatify a "rep." to 
light here, as it Is certain that the public may 
be long-Huffering, but It also baa a few laydown 
places. 

Morris ia looming up as something of a favorite 
in St. Louis, and it looks as though be could 
land this town a high favorite on his list. It is 
unquestionably true that "Baldy" Byan wanta 
another go here and It Is alfto true that he will 
sepsrate with a great big crowd of currency in 
bis dealre to accomplish the purpoae. 

News in the "Hupper Suckle" of "High l%e- 
atricals" Is scarce, the abnormal condition of 
not desiring publicity seeming to prevail for the 
time being. Whether thin system of "t)eblnd 
doors" portends good or evil for the pstrons Is a 
matter of serious conjecture, but Indefinite prog- 
nostications at the present moment. It may be 
for good and it la to be hoped that it ia. 
But 

The Grand is all agog over Sunday, but the 
bos office does not seem to be crying for an ex- 
tended and Indefinite run. Taken as a whole, 
business is far better than the productiona. but 
there must be a change soon. 

Boee Sydell has been unfortunately iU this 
week with a eevere attack of pneumonia, but la 
expected to be able to travel when the company 

OBOBOIB. 



TOLEDO, 0. 
VALENTINE (Otto Kllves, mgr. Sunday re- 
hearsal 10).— Good bill. John C. Rice and Sallle 
Cohen are clever and their comedy sketch la 
bright and original. Hawthorne and Burt form 
another attractive number. The Meredith Slaters 
went on on Sunday In their street clotbea, owing 
to cuMtoms ditOculty between here and Toronto. 
Their act waa well received. Harrlgan, comedy 

Juggler, good. LYCEUM (Frank Burt, mgr.).— 

Thia week "The Smart Set," S. H. Dudley and 

company, to big houHes. EMPIRE (Abe Sobapl- 

ro, mgr.).— "The Jersey Lilies." A gwd show 

with attractive girls and costumes, CRYSTAL 

(Ray Richiuoml, mgr.).— This house is doing ex- 
cellent buslut'NH and puts up a really good pro- 
gram. The bill week of 22 consists of: Bally 
Brothers, scrohats snd equlllhrii^tH, good; Shsrpley 
and Flynn. Irish comedians, fair; Riainor, "The 
Hindoo Yogi." Illtinioniat clever; the Oaiega Duo, 
singing and dancing, and Chas. Oehring. vocalist, 
and the KInedrome. SYDNEY WIRB. 



TOPEKA. KAN. 
NOVELTY (W. U. WelU. mgr. Monday re- 
hearsal 1:.'{0). — The new management U offering 
the theatrego««rs some aplen<lld attractions. Week 
22: John and Matjei Mo«>re, comedy act, good; 
"Auto-Glrl." mechanical d-Ol, very clever: Alice 
Alva, mnfilcal, aeveral encores; McCiiuley snd 
Donvan are alao clever; Clarence B. Martyne 
slugs Illustrated eongs. 

L. H. FRIEDMAN. 

YORK. PA. . 

PARIvOR (Wm. B. Pyle. prop. Monday re- 
bearflal 10::tO>. — Wi'^k 22: Bill l<4 a aiirprliie and 
creiiting connldernliie excitement. The Melanl 
Trio, slngera. ttne»t evtr In town; H. V. Flts- 
gerald, protean. In ".Mi<iH IWer'a Diamonds," 
talk of the place; Klsw. '.hlld |.i«y«'hlc," big hit; 
The 0»av«, cf»in»'dy jugKl'TM. great; Manny Ber- 
nard, IIel)r«'M- couiedlHn, with a batch of new stuff 
that roakeM them roll In the alalea; Thoe. Miller, 
illustrated aoiiga, good. NOTE.— W. H. Dan- 
bar la located here now. 

JAOK DIAMOND. 



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THE 3 RUBES 



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Week Nov. 5, Open. 



Week Oct 39 — Keeney*8, Brooklyn. 



MARVELOUS BARD BROS. 

MOST WONDERFUL GYMNASTS IN THE WORLD 

iUnylddy MB steal : it takes Imdiit to orifin&t*. .. Week Vor. 18, Orpheum, Salt Lake City. 

Week Oct. 29, Orpheum, Loa Aoffelee. Week Nor. 19, Orpheum, Denver, Col. 

Booked Solid Seuon 1906-07 By MYERS A KELLER, EzclutiYe Agents 




IN ENGLAND 



MTILL SOON RETURN 



Mt. S Mrs. Geo. W. Hussey 

VENTRILOQUIAL MUSICAL COMEDY 



TRIP TO EVEOPE POSTPONED. 



TIME OF ACT 14 MIHIXTES; 4 MUnXTES DT "ONE." 



■M'L 



FRANK 



MURIEL 



C 



• !• 



mbs 



AND 



stone 



"THE LAST or THE TBOITPE." By CHA8. HOBWITZ. 



Tha lateat aueoess In TasdeTilla. Our eim spec^Al to^nery. Mr. Coombe for three seassni 
■ele toMT with Oeerr* Primrose. Week Nor. S, Family Tbeatre, Butte, MoDtana. 

oomr LOOK u» owcr 

BARTH BROS, iiiira 



OOMSDT GYMNASTS. 




Week Oot. 88, Sheedy's. Fall Birer, Mass. 



SoKiroolc & Rio 

•^ . (THE TALKINO C7CLI8TS). 

••A CHANGE OF BUSINESS** 

SEASON 1907-OS. 

VAOOfcV'i.LP * ^ 

r DIBECTION REICH, PLUNKETT A WESLEY. 

TiAS 8RASX)N SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTION. BYRNE BROS.* "8 BELLS." 

THE DANCING WONDERS. 



JACK. 



LIL.L^I AN 



BROWN i WRIGHT 



Tha only Sinffinf and Daneinf Aot of its Kind in Vauderille. 



ALL AGENTS. 



HAVE YOUR CARD IN VARIETY 




NYE 



Assisted 
by his 



^'ROLLICKING GIRLS" 



The Most Novel Act in Vaudeville 

iRGINIA 






AND HER 



"JOHNNIES" 






Chas. Leonard Fletcher 

ON (opposite side of the) EARTH 

T - 

ADDRESS UNTIL MARCH 1st 

TIVOLI THEATRE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 

Care of Harrjr RIcRards* Esq. 



JOHN C. 



SALLY 



RICE and COHEN 



IN YAXTDEYILLE.. 
FEB ADDRESS, 808 W. 121st ST., N. T. CITT. 





in Vaudeville 



Manaffement JACK LETT, 

140 WEST 48D STREET. 
NEW TORS CITT. 



BIG 



ON V 
KEIXH 
CIRCUIX 



COOPER «"> ROBINSON 



WW N^^W ^^^PV^V^Wv^H wW^V^ v^V^H^v^Wv#v J^^^W^^F I^e^^MW^^W V * 



VARIETY 



17 



REPRI^SeNTATIVC ARTISTe 



RCPRCeeiNTATIVE ARTIST® 



THE 

TOY 

SOLDIER 




>*^-T^ 



■"«■, -,* 



WALTON 



^ ■•? 



WEEK OCT. 29. SHEA'S THEATRE. TORONTO, CANADA 



Management LOUIS WESLEY 



WILLIAM ROCK 



iM VAUDEVILLE 

M. 7«rom« AavMmMt Co.. tl7-»lt ■ohlUar BolUlaf. OUmc*. 



THE AMEKICAir BEAXTTT, 



BESSIE GILBERT 

lBoomp«rabl« Oorast Soloist. 
Acanti, REICH, PLUNXETT ft WESLEY, ::. 

Bt. James Bnlldlaf , Vow 7ork Oity. 

THE ORiGiMAL 

Byi ZOUG ZOUG Tr^ei 

TEH ARABS 

open time October 22 and November, December and January. 

Address all communications 

BOBKER, Luna Villa, Coney island, N. Y, 



THE OEEMAir POLITICIAV, 



CLIFF GORDON 

Stuff that I am toUinc about Hoarst and Hufbos tho biffost bit I OTor bad. AABOV HOITMAV did it. 



HZEB X AM AOAIV 
WITH SOMXTXDIO VZW. 



BILLY HART 

assisted by 
MISB AHVA TALE AVD MAEIS JAVSEV. 



YsvTEiLoainsT navEB. 



In a Norel Oom«4j Aet, OlTlBg a Real Burleeqae Imltatloa on VentrlloquLnD. 
My owB Idea. I am the first ; the orlflnator; ao remember that. 
Tbia eeasea "Yankee Doodle Qlrls" Oo. Pirates, don't trespass. Truly yours, 

RTTJ/Y RART. 



FRANK 



PAVl^INC 



BERRY & BERRY 

COMEDY MUSICAL DUO. 

Booked solid in vaudeville by Western Vaudeville Mrgs. Assooiation. 

A new act in preparation written by Bert Howard. Week Oct. 89, Danville, III. 



JHE pERRARIS 

(Terpsiohorean artists.) 
ESSENCE D' ELEGANCE DAN LA D A DANCE. 

1963 SEVENTH AVE. 



NEW YORK CITY. 



NITA ALLEN '"GO. 

Oreateit Novelty Hit of the Season, 

"CAR 8. STATEROOM 1." 
By Will M. Creisy. 



PRINCESS mm 

QUEEN or ALL EDUCATED HORSES. 

Keith ft Proctor Harlem Opera House Week 

October 88. 
Palace London, Winter Season. 

W. H. BARNES. MgT. 

O.W.WILLIAMS 

THE RENOWNED AMERICAN VENTRILOQUIST 

As rood as the best (and perhaps a little better). 

Now in vaudeville. All afonts. 

BIO SUCCESS! BIO SUCCESS! 

HILDA HAWTHORNE 

With the Four Mortoas Co. Prima donna rola. 

En route. 



* ■. '• •> 







The Only Chinese Dialect I 

Comedian in Vaudeville ^^ ' 

Can furnish the best 
Parodies In the business 



Written by 



i . .V _. ^i^V 



L 



WILLIAM BARTELL 
and LEO CARRILLO 

■- . - Addrtss care Variety, 1402 B'way, New Tori. 
NOTE-Hr. Bartell Is the man who writes all of Joe Morris* Material 

Have a Cartoon of Your- •<ir;«^A 'or f ^UUw'^ 
self or Tour Act Hade— T lue the LODDj 

ASK WALTER C. KELLEY 



Jewell's Manikins 

BETTER THAN EVER 

One of vaudeville's standard attractions. Can always be relied on to score with public and box offloa. 

Direction WM. MORRIS. 



3 ALEXAHDEB BROS. 
ANDBBADT 

EXPOSITION 4- 

Mile. Nadje 

Europe's most beautiful queen of equipoiie di- 
rect from Alhambra, London. 
Booked solid. 
Keith Circuit until May 11, 1907. 



RICE & PREVOST 

IN 

BUMPTY BUMPS 

Arthur J. /VHssQrace 

MeWATERS ..< TYSON 

In a Spectacular Musical Comedy 
"VAUDEVIL,UB" 

Week Oct. 29, Haymarket, Chioaco, 111. Week 
Nov. 6, Columbia, St. Louis, Mo. Week Vor. IS, 
Orand, Pittsburg, Pa. Week Nov. 19, Columbia, 
Cincinnati, O. 



iuj 



•. ■ ■■ * . 



■■•■■■■ . ■ ■ . . ■ ■' ..^ .''■■ '•■'."' 

LONDON GRAPHIC: ''The only dancer London has ever seen whose execution equals that of our great Genee" 



Mile. DAZIE 

PREMIERE DANSEUSE. 



WORLD 

FAMOUS 

IN HER 

ORIGINAL 

CHARACTER 



Le Domino Rouge 



HAMMCRSTKIN'S MANHATTAN GRAND OP£RA CO. 



Wktit umotrk^ cdvtrtiummit hMlf mmUio* V 



• • *. , • 



ItrXKIBTT 



REPReeBNTATIVe ARTI8T8 



RBPRe«eiNTATIVD ARTI8T8 





SECOND SEASON "MERRY MAIDENS" CO. 



'THX AOT BSAUTifUJ* 



>t 



IN 
TROUSERS'* 



IRENE LEE 



AMD 



'MCAN 




Kl 




II 



OCT 



ooLovxAz^ V. T. cnrr. 



Harry Harvey 



<« 



»» 



■pMkl •iwa««ntat, playiaf tk* iMdl^ Kafenw part ta stook at th* BaU TkMirt, Oddaai, OU. 




SPENCER 

Character Impersonator in "Odds and Ends off Comedy" 

Booked by E. C. HAYMAN, Western Vandeyille AiaocUtion. 



ORXAT BXVIATIOVAL VOYZLTT TEATWUL, 



CONTINO/LAIA/RENCE 

Orlfiiud iip4id*>dowB d«Bo«n, all othan daaeJag up^aUa-dawn ara pteataAi 



UWARD 



USICAL BRENNANS »»- 



"The Maideal Brcnnana are wonder* In tbe way they extract mnale from all kinda of Ifnaleal Iiatni- 

nenta. Acta like these are a vreat addition to any bill." — Philadelphia, Pa., Item. 

Op«B time in Janaary and Tehmary. Addraaa oaia TARIXTT ar OUppar. 




jnmmmmimBJYmBnua 



ASSISTED BY 

CFRANCISYDUNO 

PRESENTING 



OPATRA 



(A LA MODS) 

IIMJTE PROOUCnON OPJIUMOROUS'rWMSrYAND MU9CM. 

.... A MIXTURE OF WeiRO ORICNTi^ ^ . 

THE eOYPTIAN BARC-FdOT SWOI 

VsOfWS. . . . .THE CATOIieSTCLEVEREST EVER ROSE 
[COSrmKM .THE MOST MAGNIFICENT IN VMLIOCVIUJ; 

^ei£crmc .a constant dazzle of briluantcolor scmemc , 

[j^JgW^^MAJgTFUMWTERlOROFaEC^aWIBe^^ 




"6eneral" Ed. LaVine 



"The 



COMEDY JT700LEB, 
Who Has Soldiered All Hia Ufa.' 




JUST TO BNCOUBAOB THE LiAUOHINO HAlfff. 



WALTER 



VATAUX 



HAWLEtaod OLGOH 

PBBBBNTING A. HAWLET'8 OOAeDT, "JUST 
yABEIBD A WUDK." 

A dean, homellka playlet; a aora laigk gatlar. 

ALL AOXVTt. 



C 

I 

R 

C 

U 



J 



\ 






POnSS AVD MAITD. 



Woodward's Soals 

Present owner and manager, CLIFF BERZ AC 



MAT 



BvmT 



WIXON and EATON 



TWO MSS AVB A DEUX Dl A WHZEL OF 
Wltk Famova EeBt8*8aatley Oo. 



Carl-fcon IVIacy, 
IS/laude Hall & Oo 



W tEMtB T U i O <*TKI M AOWE AEP TXB 7AT." 

BY EPW . W EETTEL. 

VOW OH THX KEITH CIEOVIT. 



CHAS. NICHOLS 

Writer and ^«dneer of entlra produeiioa of "Etar Aow Olrla," plajlac title rale if "Bapar 
IXCOVD IBAIOV. MAHAOXMEVT Of 



JUNO SALMO 

on the ftrength of a single perf onnsnce at the New York Theatre^ has arranced for an 
entire season's booking through that yery live agent, 

M. S. BENTHAM 

over the Keith, Proctor and Orpheum Circuits, commencing May 13 of next year. 

Opens at London Empire, January 7, for Eight Weeks. 

First Open Time April, 1908. 

HARRY FOX and Twin 

SISTERS MELNOTTE 

A dainty eomady aooooetloa in one. With "Dreamland Bnrleaqnera.** 
Parmanant add r aaa aara YAEZXTT, Okiaaco OAea, 79 8. Clark St. 

MABEL SINCLAIR 



THX PEXmEB LADY VEXTEILOQVIST. 



THX KEITH CTRCiriT. 



M ANAGXRS 



•• 



NOT A I^KMON 



•• 



MANAGCR8 



THE ORIGINAL 



HERALD SQUARE QUARTETTE 



9PlBOM|I0VAUltB 



Aidreaa Wau ■•rria. kH 



(VIliBKR. D« BRtJIRr MARX. BKRBm.|IT) 



p. A. Karr. Hit, KEVN f KCitUO 



VAKIBTT 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTIST® 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS 




4ND 




Presenting ''PIERROT and PIERRETTE** 



Per. Address 3405 Colling^nrood Ave.* Toledo, 0« 



iiSHEAN— WARREN ^ 

1m Th0it Origiaal Tnrmtim, 

"QUO VADIS "— " C A P T. K I D D " 

PIE. ADO., tl OUESTER STEEET. MOUVT yEENON, If. T. \ 
■EAIOV 'OT-'OS, BTAEEmO XTNBEE DIEEOTIOH OF PEE07 O. WXLXJAllS. 





In a Sensational Tight Wire Act 



Ask Myers & Keller 



▲ VBW FEEBElfTATIOV. BEE XT* 



WHEELER EARL and VERA CURTIS 

la "TO BOtTOV OE E U BIEMB /' V7 OEO. X. OOHAE. First time W—k Oct. M, Family The- 
atre. IMth St., N. T. City. 



TOM 



70E 



Bissett and Miller 

CHAB. TATLOE. HOE. 
Veatest dresMd danoiar aot before the publio with "BALTIXOEE BEAUTIES" 



WILFRED CLARKE 

AMistod by MISS THEO CARCW and CO. 

PraMntini Hi* Sk*tehM 

NO MORE THOUBLE" tLndl 'WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT 
MmoimmB, om^m LAmm9' mtum, jvrw yokk oity 



»t 



OBOBOB 



THE OOXEDT AOEOBATIC EOYELTT. 



Mullem"' Corelli 



or SVMOEOVB FEOULIAEITIEB. 



WEES OCT. », EMFIBE. HOBOKEE, V. 7. 



COR'BLiYANoCONLEY 



•• 



"THE FIXEE A»l> THE SPOET 
APPEAEINO TWICE DAILY AT PASTOR'S THEATRE, NEW TOES CITT, WEEK OOT. W. 



BOB 



THE 



K 




M 





WALTERS m PROUTY 



ALWAYS A HIT 



Carlisle and Baker 

THE OOLOEBD AEIBTOOEATl. 
Plaalvte. Tocaliiti sad coaipeeeia. Plaxtng twe plaaoa at eaa 



Stor Attraction 
roues MARIGNY, PARIS 

ti¥ice: prolonged 

A LC MATIN-..<*Tlie Biggest American Hit in Years." 

0. H. HARRIS, lionoger - ' CD. MARKUli, Press Rep. 



ELTINGE 



COMEDY SKETCH 

BIO SUCCESS ON WILUAHS' CIECniT. Our acente— EEIOK, PLUVKETT * 

MIKE BERNARD 

Pianist dt Pastor's Tiieatre 



Hl OUk 



•f PaiAH't 



DAVE FERGUSON 



UOXT OOMZDIAV WITH rEEVBaST'S "MISS EBW TOEX. JE. 



•• 



8ea«m 1M6-'0T. 



tL X. 



fraink: 



WORK 



AND 



OOKIBT AOEOBATS 



OWER 



OEPHEVM SHOW SEASOV '0«-'07. 



THE THREE COATES 



(Ia«ladlBC "Uttle BoBlewer") 
XV "WANTED. AJT EEEAED EOT. 



t» 



THE TOTITOS 

Burepeaa Veirelty Aot. Vow ea tour. 



CUSHMAN 

The World's Fanous 20th Century Minstrel 

For Opea Time Address E. OEAV, Suite 9 sad 10, 186S BEOAOWAT 

BESSIE VALDARE'S 

TROUPE or CYCLISTS AND UNICYCLISTS 

Booked nntU 1908. Address ears Halted BooUac Offices. St. James Buildlnff, Hew York OLtf, 

ZINGARI TROUPE 



Proeea«ed by ALEZAHBEE BETAV. 



DfteetloB ef OBOBOB XOMANB. 



Beiiciaire Bros 



MODERN HERCULES 



Introjflucing the most senutional two-man acrobatic foat 
oyer accomplished. A twenty foot leap across the stage to 
a high hand-to-hand. Absolute originators and only ac- 
complishers of this marvellous feat. Season 1906-07 booked 
soUd. 

Address E. F. CARRUTHERS, Western Vaudeville Assn., 
Chicago, or BELLCIAIRE BROS., care Klein, 313 E. /ad St., 
New York. 



» 



VARIETY 



RePRB«eNTATIVB ARTI8T6 



RBPRBSBINTATtVC TOZTtSTB 



mmmmmm. 



ARTHUR PRINCE «■> 



a 



' iljH 

HIF 




DBAMATIO lOnUkVO. 



Louise Cogswell 



TO&K OITT. 



MORKIS MAVLET AVD DOLLT ITSRUVO IV THZIE ORIOIVAL FLATLET 

Kiel Hiokev 



Oopyrlffht^d OUm L ZZO. Mo. Mil. 

.. ..". , . DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS 

Glemenso Bros. 

NOVBl^TY i¥tUSIC%E. C^iVtBDY 

AOBOBATIO OLOWVt. ^ ^ TIMS OF ACT, IB WXTTOB. v. Aidrws Oai« TAEIITr. 

T""^ MYSTERIOUS 

Howard Brothers 

Th* Wwld'* a^BOwl«dv«d theutbt traBBmisiion and telepathlo wondan. 
.. WMk Get IS, Ith At*. ThMtra, V. T. Oitj. 

BOOKED SOLID WTIL APBIL. 



Elinore Sisters 



In VAUDEVILLE 



DIreotion CEO. HOMANS 



Mr. & Mis. GENE HUGHES 



"■SSSKyASii;!"" "suppressing the PRESS" 

1STM 



amsDT pLATLsr. 

STTX tntSBT, raw TOES OETT* 



ST. ONCE BROTHERS 

Ilie MM\ Stiifldiiril Teniii 

Speedy Wheels Make Speedy Riders 
GIVE IT A THOUGHT 



SECOND SEASON 




Sisters 



"WASHIKOTOM SOCIETT 0IEL8" 
SXASOV 'OS.m. 



DISIOTIOV 
W. B. WATtOV. 



YAVOLA 



WILLIAIMS and IMELBUR 

Polit« Taad«Till« antertainera jDreaeatiiic "Coaker's Call." 
Booked solid until Xmaa weak. Addreas all ag enta. 



rKATVRKD UriTH *' BOM TONS 



•• 



FRANCES CIABE 

WEEK OCT. SS, OBEEHWALL THEATBE, SEW OBLEASS. 

Earle anOarllett 

OS THX KEITH CIBCUIT. THE LATTOHIKO HIT AT POBTLASD, KB., THIB WEEK. 

OCysbvUXb 



IDA OABLB, 



THE GREAT CHEVALIER 



SVTB •. 




AND 




I 





Vandarilla'a Laadlay Batartaiaan witk tha Baajo. 



Far. addraaa. M WaakiMtoa it, MMAatawa. 



RARRER-RITCHIE TRIO 



Tima aU lUad vatJl av ratara to Batpiva 
Balak. FlaakatI * 



Waak Oct. SS, Orphanm, Baadlaf, Fa. 
■t Immm Maak. IISI 



H 



OKI OI NATO R 



^H BABSST mmm mm JOHS 

Ferguson and Mack 

Booked solid sfttfl Dsosmbtr. Dinction JACK LXTT. 



Chris 



EOOBSTBIO OOMBDIAS. 




BIOOEBT 8VO0BM OF AST BSOUSH OOMSDIAS IS AKBBIOA. 



ASHTO 



THE BCOESTBIO OOMBDT DVO 




AND EARLE 



FBBBSTISO THBIB LAVOHISO SOTBLTT 

"THE EDITOR OF FUDGE" 

OLABK OAVST, TOV ABB VOT MnTAXEM. 



IN 



RYAN-RICHFIELD COMPANY 

"Mag Haggerty's Reception" 



sDtsonos wx. M oBmn. 



BT WILL IC. OBSaST. 

STABTISO TOVB ltfT4S DnUBOTXOS F. •. WniXAm. 



The Banks-Breazeale 



The Dalatleat ol Naalcai Acta 



JINO. A. \A/BSX 

The Birmingham I^edgor. Thursday. October U, 1906: "At the Majeatlc— "The Musical Brownie' 
iR p<>rbap« the mcwt abnurd and the most Irresistible creature that has OTar bo«n aeen on th« atage 
of the niajeatlc Theatre, that bouse of conataat aurprises. Such a makeup as that uaed by John A. 
West could hardly be imagined in the wildest dream of any one but a metropolitan newspaper car* 
toonist. It lit only half human, superhuman would be a better definition. It Is so tremendoosly 



Duo 

f <I3 W. 40th St., N. Y. CHy 



ridiculous that the wbole audience bursts out into laughter the moment the face marches oa tha 
stage and before it has opened its mouth. *Browale' is the name for Weat'a whimsical conception. 
Tbia Brownie la musical and blowa a great deal of melody out of hla queer shape. The act la 
unique and utterly atrange, tha strangest thing that has been aeen on the Majestic circuit, ao 
doubt. It ia Immenaely popalar with the crowda, and haa made perhapa the biggeat hit of the weak.** 



^ 



When anntoering adveriiitmenti kindly mention Vabibtt. 



VARIETY 



ii 



RePRe«ENTATfVB AttTi6TS 



REPRC®ENTATIVe ARTI8Te 





FOUR 



Collias, Hoiry, Twrill and Sinai 



UMtmr fVTSsmLAi 



•t. 9i 



HIGH ' CUASS 
COMEDY MUSICAL OFFERINC 

W. T. 




I. 



Bert Howard & Leona Bland 



PBMIMTIVO 

"THE STAGE MANAGER" 



FRED ZOBEDIE 



V«w ¥MklMr r«r TMitrfll*. AT LZBSBTT DBO. Ittk. 

F«ff putlevUn Uinm BOBXET •ZmAEO. IMI BBOASWAT, VVW TOi^ tr nZD ZOBEDIX. m 

fw rMM wltk th« tTMit A4aa rM«pM«k-a«Us 



/; 



JUGGLING THORNS 



OHAEAOTER tHIOIVO. 



NELLIE SEYMOUR 

yn. ABDEMl. 110 WE8T lUtfc IT., 'PHOMl M70 MOEHIMOglDE. 

METROPOLITAN 



M 



Fred Xarnq's Undan 



Comedy Pantdininie Co's. 

Headlinert everywhere — and get the money back. 

A IIIHT II THE SLUMS OF LONDOH, ''*'" ««" »%oS"'™^ ■**^ 
A IIBIT IN Al EiaUSH MNSIC lALL, ""^ °'SJft!}SS%V^'^- 

Copyrighted at Waahington. Attorney Wul Groaaman. 
The original and legitimate prodnctiona. 
Jail Birda and The Smoldng Concert in repertoire. 
General Manager, ALF. REEVES. Agenta, WH MORRIS and H. B. MARINELU. 



Ohas. J. BurkhardI 



iMe.'f7. 



www TOtK* TE. 



»* 



HICKMAN BROS; 

^ WHl preaent a n*w act, neztHMaaoo written cspMlallj 'for then 1^ NR. WILPRCD CLARKt. 
bireotlon M, B^ ^EMtHAlt. MOW OV nS XOHL ft OASTLX OntOUIT. 





V AL. 



•» 



'%» 



XJaOMOBB 



OPERA T R I,0 . ;, . 

VMftio. ANHA FLUM, Prima Dorm ?:.Sl#RRri TORTORICO m»i BtiBI 

In coBtfeoMd TvralQiis of "II Trorator*" aad "Danat'* trio*. Seaacrr mad <i«taiD« chanffM. Bona fld« 
Orand Opera Slntera who have aanr In Grand Opera. 

IDA OARLB, Rnnlnaaa Beprcaentatlva, St Xaona BnlUlna. 



MINERVA YANO 

^ QUEEN OF HANDCUFFS. ' ' * "^ ^ ,lc« * . 
Week Oot. 89, extra feature, ATeane Oirli Oompanr, Jacob'a iTheatre, Patenonf tf. 7. *-« 
ANT GOOD AOENT. [^ ' - 

Bettina Bruca'^ Co. 



iXff&JX. "THE ASHES OF ABAM" 



^• - «• 



lirrj- 




-Kati 



Zn their own eriflnal oemedj, entitled 

^^HIS DAY ORF'T 

BIO LAUGBXVO KIT ETEBTWHXBB. ■''':> ' . 

HAVE VOUR CARD IN VARIETY 



Spaulding e^nd Dupuee 

' i #^ , WEEK OCT. n, OBPHEUX TKEATBE, ALLENTOWN, FA. j- 

ADDRXU BOX Ml. OBlIVDrO, V. T. 

JIMMIE LUCAS 



"TKl BOT WITH 
Booked Solid, Keith and Orpheum Time. 

» ~ e *■' 



THB DIALBOTi. 



tt . 



.5 V" 



^ 



MLLE. 



$OUSA 



AND 



SLOAN 



HARRY 



TSX FKXSTIDIOrTATOX AND THE MAOIGIKIN. 

('*Watdi the Soahhace.") ' . 

Watoh the taiah. 8XB THE • FBBNOK FOODLE D008. .. 4 > 

KANAOERS AND AGENTS DTVITED. Wee^ <^|f ^» Garriok Theatre, Wllmlaatoa, DeL 

DARE DEVIL CASTELLANE 



na. F« 



lent 



OF A 
addieai 



hgr TOLa. 



TABIXTT, Ohieaae ORee, 19 i. OUik It 



Willi 



le Weston 



TOURING IN yiuDXyXLLB. 
Booked aolid management AL JCATKB, it Jamea Buildia«. 



X 





Headinff the lapiie Show. 



IF TOV OAN*T BX Oo6d, BX OAXXFUL." 

I IVI H O 

Direetien XXUOX A FXNN. 



Larry Smith, Mamie Cliampion, Sam J. Adams s Comp'y 



IN 



tt 





I 

Wk9» 9mtW9 rim§ 94v€rti»ememU hMttp wteniion 




99 



22- 



V T ' t ** • V 

VAXIBTY 



-•"f' 



RBPRCSeiSTATIVE ARTI8T8 



R&Plib«^ISTAYlVB' 4llTt«^^ 



nn fMATAIJUMkllUt WtTM A VEODVOflOS. 




MifftiM MAftTn 




SKATORIAI^ISm 

W««k Qet m, O. 0. H., Tw^t^impftHa, Zad. 
VoT. t« OoloiiibU, OiaoiBaAtl, 0. 

DAVE LEWIS 




tons f ALLft. 




GKSMAM OOMEDUV 
wltk "BALTmOBS BXA1 

(QUB. TATIAE, Her. 





nr ''i^ LiTDio PUMFKnr'* 

Book«d toUd liy Wttton TaadavilU 



. n wmc tu* 



'*i«4lt fTMI'tk* FMlio' 




and Yiolette 



VLTEA rASHXOV FLATEI 
OCT. M. ZEITVf. BOITOV. 



™ TOSSING 
AUSTINS 

BOOSSD BOLZD THX JAVVAET, IMV. 
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TEM AW) ITAOED BT JAMEM W. HO»A>D. 

LAWRENCE CRANE 

"Tss ntns MAaioiAV.*' 

AMiiUd by May OnvforA ft 0*. Xatrodnoloc 
hi* UtMt UloAiMi "ONmatloB." 

JAMES AND DAVIS 

«'THI DzkzX B0T8." 
W« Tmlk, f iBf and foma How. 

NcDeVITT and KELLY 

ECCEKTRIO DAHCEE8 AlTD ODMEBXAn. 

JAS. F. LEONARD 

abhsted bt mibs olaha wmi ' iE g 

BILLY HART 

Tbe orifinal Human yeBtrUoqulat Ifnra, 
•iitad by Ansa Tala and Maria Jaaaa aa , 
ia a raal oomady act "A Vlaytiaac." 






'mellilirolly"(o. 

BICE A BARTON AMVSEMENT CO. 

Proprietors and Manaferi, 

In the Muiical Comedy Burleeque 

BOYALBILLYGOATS" 
T. F. THOMAS 

}. AS "MARK MOOMET." 



GEO. W. RICE 

AS "DEKBIB SWEEKET." 

JOHN E. CAIN 

COMSDIAH. 

Blanche Neweombe 

In Aer NoTcft Spe'oialty, 
"BUSTER BROWN." 

PATTON & VAN 

COMEDY MUSICAL ACT. 

HABBY W. EVANS 



COMEDIAN. 



IBYLLA VYNEB 

COMEDIENNE. 

MLLE. BEATBIGE 

DANSEVBE. 

Augmented by a host 
of show girls : 

Catherina York, Nora Fuller, May Duolot, 
Nina York, Edna Crane, Margaret Heath, Grace 
Elder, Etta May Athton, May Armitronv, Ba> 
die Van Neai, Helen Drew, Sadie Chipman, 
Mabel Oibaon. Walter Webb, Bob Thomas. 






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"HKiH SdlOOL (AM' 

QUEENS or BURLESaUB. 
CRAB. lOHV 

Burke Bros. 

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inf East. 

P. §.— Wa both wear tiffbta. 
MELANCHOLY DESTROYERS. 

IJOU 

bdMEDY FOUR 

M. Median, J. Nelion, W. Oswald, F. Dapsw. 
*' Don*! Get ExcHed.** 




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Brennans 

Burlesque Sinflnf and Talking. 
P. S.— Wa dott*t wear tlfhta. 



0L08IN0 THB OUO. 



WILLARD 



AUCX 



AND 

MAD6B 

"From the Bowery to Broadway." Comedy 
Sinrinr and Talkinr Act. 14 Minutes in One. 



HUGHES 



SPECIAL FEATURE. 



Bilda Carle 



AND HER 



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ST. LOUIS, WEEK OCTOBER 29 

DRFAMLAND BURLESQUERS 

In DAVE MAIION'S BItf Mvaical PUy. 

Under the Direction of TOM MINER. 

0ABf 6f e&AKAOfE&B 

Oscar Firesteln. a theatrical msnnser. 

Harry Fox 
Joseph Jacob Cohen, his principal com<Hllan, 

Wllllara I*«nrenoe 
Dan Smooth, Stanley's pal. ) 
Willlsm Dull, an Engllohman, { .Dave Marion 
Old John Brown, ) 

Fred Stanley, Smooth's pal ... . OeorKC Dorsey 
Charles Bentley, an heir to millions. 

Marie Thompson 

Csptain Ktdd, not the original Fred Barnea 

Conatable Ryan Georjfe II. Pierce 

Constable Macsdno J. J. Dohcrty 

Oonstable Ketchem Ike Wall 

Daisy DsRh, Ftrestein's lesding lady. 

Aggie Behler 

Violet Rose Pearl Melnotte 

Rose Violet Coral Melnotte 

Lilly Blossom Adelaide Fell 

Shorty, a telegraph lad By Himself 

Soubrettes, Sight Seekers. Sailors. Pedes- 
trians and Others Too Nnmernus to Mention. 
ACT I — On Broadway. 

During this act the following musical num- 
bers are introdnced: "Everything's Hustle on 
Broadway," "Duty of an Officer," "Joseph 
Jacob Cohen," "I Want to be an Actress." 
"Hannah from IxMiislana." "Time Will Tell," 
"Good-bye Dear Old Broadway." 

Olio. ~ 

THOMPSON A LAURENCE. 

Singing Comedians. 

THE SAILOR BOYS 
BUOU COMEDY TRIO r 
George L. Dorsey — George H. Pierca— 
J. J. Doherty, 
In NoTelty. Comedy end Haniion.v. 

Walk^Walk— Walk. 
DAVE MARION AND HIS BIG COMPANY 

In "Bast Side Life." 

HARRY FOX, the Entertainer, 

And the Tuin SlsterH, 

MELNOTTE, 

California's Favorites. 



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SCKNK 2-Roselnnd. 

nuring Act II. the following original mu- 
sical nnnibprs are Intnxlnred: "Roseland," 
"Ho«p, Rose. RoHC. My Little Rose," "Oo^ 
Old Uncle Sam." "Where Am I?" 

Tiip uroductlnn ntaged under the personal 
dlre«-tlon of Dave Marloa 

BKRT J. KENDRICK Manager 



"THOBOUGHBBEOS" 



WASH MARTIN, 



MANAGER. 



NIBLO and RILEY) 

THE WOOD DEALER AND THB KID. 

Washburn and Flynn 

THE ANIMATED TWO 

GHAS. W. BOUGLAS 



OOMEDLAH. 



HABBY McAVM 



COMEDIAN. 



SAM SGHILLEB 

MVaiCAL DIRECTOR. 

MLLE. LA TGSKA 

CONTORTIONIST. 

HENBY and FBANCIS 

IN THE *'VEW JANITOR." 

And 25 Prancing Fillies 



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Per. Address 877 Stk Avsk, N. Y. City. 

Red! ord and 
Winchester 



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IN "PRIMA DOWA AND OHO.'* 

ADDRESS 118 WEST 44TH ST. 

Telephone 1159-R Bryant. 

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COMEDIENNES 

IN VAUDEVILLE. 

SADIE HUESTED 

LCAOIKG BOY 

With Baltimore Beauties. 



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THB MAN WITH MANY VOICES. 
Kaith-Proetor Olrenlt. 



JACK INORWORTn 

WTTKLKW riELDf' "ABOVT TOWK" CO. 

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ST. PAUL, WEEK OCT. 29 

"THE TIGEB DUES" 



WILL N. DREW, PROP. ABB M«R. 



GEO. P. MURPHY 

GERMAN COMSDZAH. 
The man who sings the "Ehana ghardan Honaa.** 

ED. CLAIK r.iONB 

Corbly & BurkG 

COMBDIANB AMP D4MC1RB. 

NAY BEINONI 



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Exponents of physioal enltvra uA hlgk^alaaa 
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Beatrice Mm 



LEADING WOMAM. 



Duby Hiircourt 

THE COMXDIByVS. 
Addraaa WILLIAM MORRIB. 





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MYEBS A KELLER. ' 

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MARTIN g (ROlKIl 

El aOUTE, EMPIBE SHOW. 

HARTFORD TIRES STAND THE TEST. 
Buy them and you will have the best. Used ex- 
clusivoly by those funny oyelista. 

Millard Bros. 



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SAM DEVERE'S OWN COMPANY SEASON 

STUART BARNES 

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Sketch Bureau 

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ten to order. Acta rcTiaed and staged. Actors 
and Tarlety artiata auppUed to work In acta. Call, 
write or telephone. 

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ICanacer Bkatoh Bntftan D«pt., ttaU«w« ft Orft> 
ffory's Thaatriottl Bsohaiif*, 14M Broadway. 

Darling % Co. 

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New YorK 

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